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openFDA API — openFDA provides access to a variety of public data rel…

🩺 Health & FoodUNMONITORED
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openFDA API exposes openFDA provides access to a variety of public data related to FDA-regulated products. It offers APIs for searching FDA data for drugs, devices, food, and other relevant categories crucial for healthcare decisions and research. We verified a keyless GET endpoint returning JSON (Food & Drink). Check the provider docs for rate limits and terms before production use.

—HOW IT'S SCORED ⓘ
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ON PROBE SCHEDULE

We probe a documented GET and expect 2xx JSON — full uptime and health score. Open provider docs ↗

Uptime historystarts after first probe

On our probe schedule. Uptime charts appear after the first check lands.

Example responsefrom provider docs — not verified by us
GET https://open.fda.gov/data.json

{
  "conformsTo": "https://project-open-data.cio.gov/v1.1/schema",
  "as_of_date": "Tuesday, August 18, 2015",
  "dataset": [
    {
      "accessLevel": "public",
      "bureauCode": [
        "009:10"
      ],
      "contactPoint": {
        "fn": "openFDA",
        "hasEmail": "mailto:open@fda.hhs.gov"
      },
      "description": "This list includes human and pet food subject to recall in the United States since January 2009 related to peanut products distributed by Peanut Corporation of America. ",
      "distribution": [
        {
          "downloadURL": "http://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/peanutbutterrecall/PeanutButterProducts2009.xml",
          "mediaType": "application/xml",
          "accessURL": "http://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/peanutbutterrecall/PeanutButterProducts2009.xml",
          "format": "XML"
        }
      ],
      "accrualPeriodicity": "irregular",
      "identifier": "5d4b366c-07ca-4358-a783-01aa2fe59684",
      "keyword": [
        "recalls"
      ]
    },
    {
      "accessLevel": "public",
      "bureauCode": [
        "009:10"
      ],
      "contactPoint": {
        "fn": "openFDA",
        "hasEmail": "mailto:open@fda.hhs.gov"
      },
      "description": "This list includes food subject to recall in the United States since March 2009 related to pistachios distributed by Setton Pistachio of Terra Bella, Inc. The FDA has completed its inspection of Salmonella contamination in pistachios and pistachio products involved in this recall. ",
      "distribution": [
        {
          "downloadURL": "http://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/pistachiorecall/Pistachio2009.xml",
          "mediaType": "application/xml",
          "accessURL": "http://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/pistachiorecall/Pistachio2009.xml",
          "format": "XML"
        }
      ],
      "accrualPeriodicity": "irregular",
      "identifier": "8acf8bd4-3c2b-4697-a2be-3d5006fbfc91",
      "keyword": [
        "ora"
      ]
    }
  ]
}
Call itcurl · fetch · python
curl "https://open.fda.gov/data.json"
const res = await fetch("https://open.fda.gov/data.json");
const data = await res.json();
console.log(data);
import requests

res = requests.get("https://open.fda.gov/data.json")
print(res.json())

BROWSER CALLS BLOCKED (NO CORS/HTTPS) — USE THE CURL SNIPPET

Endpoints · 2On scheduleFULL DOCS ↗
On schedule — GET /data.json awaits first probe
GET/data.jsonPROBED

openFDA API — openFDA provides access to a variety of public data rel…

GET/data.json?limit=5

Paginated variant with limit parameter.

Machine-readable spec

We probe a documented GET and expect 2xx JSON — full uptime and health score. Export includes every documented route below.

Response-shape history

Not tracked yet. Shape-change history starts once this API joins our probe schedule.

openFDA API: common questions

Is openFDA API free to use?

Yes — openFDA API is a free health & food API. Free tier: Free — limits not published. Whether the free tier allows commercial use is unclear — check the provider docs.

Does openFDA API need an API key?

No — openFDA API needs no API key or signup. You can call it straight away; rate limits still apply (Unpublished).

Can I call openFDA API from the browser?

Not directly — openFDA API doesn't send browser-friendly CORS headers, so call it from a server or proxy instead. Copy the curl or Python snippet on this page to get started.

Is openFDA API up right now?

openFDA API is catalogued but not yet on our probe schedule, so we don't publish a live status for it. Check the provider's own status page or docs for its current state.