Civic hacking FDA's National Drug Code Directory
Building a look-up of Food and Drug Administration approved medicines.
By: Luke Fretwell
Posted: December 30, 2022
Estimated read time: 1 minutes
(This post is part of an ongoing series documenting adventures in father-son civic hacking.)
README
We built a drug look-up tool of Food and Drug Administration approved medicines using the National Drug Code Directory API. This includes:
- Drug search tool
- Page listing for each FDA-approved medicine
Each drug listing includes:
- Generic name
- Manufacturer
- Labeler
- Ingredients
- Packaging
- Type
- Route
Data
Data used for this project:
- National Drug Code Directory (Food and Drug Administration)
Kudos
Big kudos to FDA for:
- Maintaining a public application programming interface of the data.
Demo
Drug search:
Example drug listing:
Feedback
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