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Search and read EMA records through the Assyro API: EU medicines, EPARs, EMA guidelines, orphan designations, PIPs, PSUSAs, shortages and DHPCs.

GEThttps://api.assyro.com/v1/sources/ema/search

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Search and read EMA records from your own code: EU medicines, EPARs, EMA guidelines, orphan designations, PIPs, PSUSAs, shortages and DHPCs. Published by European Medicines Agency (www.ema.europa.eu/en/medicines); answered from Assyro's copy, refreshed 05:30 and 17:30 UTC.

Attribution required: every record carries attribution. Show it wherever you show the data: "Source: European Medicines Agency (www.ema.europa.eu)." See the terms.

Example: "Is lecanemab (Leqembi) authorised in the EU?"

Search

GET https://api.assyro.com/v1/sources/ema/search with any of these query parameters. Repeat a parameter for a list (?phase=PHASE2&phase=PHASE3). An unknown parameter is refused by name.

Search parameters

  • querystringrequired

    Words to find in the title, facts and text, e.g. "natalizumab", "bioequivalence guideline", "Ozempic shortage". "quoted phrases", OR and -exclusions work.

  • collectionsstring[]

    Keep only these collections (any of them). Omit to search all. One of: medicines, epar-documents, guidelines, guidance-pages, orphan-designations, pips, psusas, shortages, dhpcs.

  • dateFromstring

    Earliest record date, YYYY, YYYY-MM or YYYY-MM-DD (inclusive). The date is the authorisation date for a medicine, the designation or decision date for orphans and PIPs, and the first-published date otherwise. Records without a date are left out when a date bound is given.

  • dateTostring

    Latest record date, YYYY, YYYY-MM or YYYY-MM-DD (inclusive: "2024" means through 2024-12-31).

  • sortstring

    'relevance' (default) or 'newest' for the most recently published first. One of: relevance, newest.

  • limitinteger

    Records to return, default 8.

  • offsetinteger

    Skip this many results (for paging), default 0.

Each result is a record; read one in full with Get a record.

What a record holds

  • id, title, url: the source's identifier, its title and its page at the source, to verify it.
  • authority, publishedDate, version: who published it, when, and the edition read.
  • snippet and fields: the matching text and the source's own fields.
  • asOf: the day Assyro's copy of the source was read.
  • attribution: the attribution the licence requires.