Dosage Forms

GEThttps://api-drugs.dataandapis.com/v1/drugs/forms

Dosage Forms is an endpoint of the Drugs API. 135,000 FDA drug products by NDC, joined with 17,900 recall reports.

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Request

This endpoint takes no parameters.

Example request

curl

curl "https://api-drugs.dataandapis.com/v1/drugs/forms" \
  -H "X-Api-Key: YOUR_API_KEY"

Node.js

const res = await fetch("https://api-drugs.dataandapis.com/v1/drugs/forms", {
  headers: { "X-Api-Key": process.env.DATAANDAPIS_KEY },
});
const data = await res.json();

Python

import os, requests

r = requests.get(
    "https://api-drugs.dataandapis.com/v1/drugs/forms",
    headers={"X-Api-Key": os.environ["DATAANDAPIS_KEY"]},
)
data = r.json()

Example response

{
  "ok": true,
  "count": 8,
  "forms": [
    {
      "dosage_form": "TABLET",
      "count": 18606
    },
    {
      "dosage_form": "POWDER",
      "count": 15180
    },
    {
      "dosage_form": "TABLET, FILM COATED",
      "count": 11802
    },
    {
      "dosage_form": "LIQUID",
      "count": 10101
    },
    {
      "dosage_form": "PELLET",
      "count": 7439
    },
    {
      "dosage_form": "CAPSULE",
      "count": 6781
    },
…

Show full response

{
  "ok": true,
  "count": 8,
  "forms": [
    {
      "dosage_form": "TABLET",
      "count": 18606
    },
    {
      "dosage_form": "POWDER",
      "count": 15180
    },
    {
      "dosage_form": "TABLET, FILM COATED",
      "count": 11802
    },
    {
      "dosage_form": "LIQUID",
      "count": 10101
    },
    {
      "dosage_form": "PELLET",
      "count": 7439
    },
    {
      "dosage_form": "CAPSULE",
      "count": 6781
    },
    {
      "dosage_form": "CREAM",
      "count": 6747
    },
    {
      "dosage_form": "SOLUTION",
      "count": 5532
    }
  ]
}

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