DailyMed API

Base URL

https://dailymed.nlm.nih.gov/dailymed/services/v2

Authentication

No API key required.

Rate limit

No published hard limit; fair use expected.

Pricing

Free public domain US government data.

CORS

Not enabled — call it from your server

Official docs

Read the docs

Every request below was executed against the live API on 20 Aug 2026, and the response shown is the real body it returned — not an illustration.

curl 'https://dailymed.nlm.nih.gov/dailymed/services/v2/spls.json?pagesize=1'

const res = await fetch("https://dailymed.nlm.nih.gov/dailymed/services/v2/spls.json?pagesize=1");
if (!res.ok) throw new Error(`Request failed: ${res.status}`);
const data = await res.json();
console.log(data);

import requests

res = requests.get("https://dailymed.nlm.nih.gov/dailymed/services/v2/spls.json?pagesize=1", timeout=20)
res.raise_for_status()
print(res.json())

{
  "data": [
    {
      "spl_version": 1,
      "published_date": "Aug 19, 2026",
      "title": "AUTOBRUSH MINT (SODIUM FLUORIDE) LIQUID [LANDER ENTERPRISES, LLC]",
      "setid": "0e043431-9d87-478d-87f5-5aa8b0a932eb"
    }
  ],
  "metadata": {
    "db_published_date": "Aug 19, 2026 08:28:16PM EST",
    "elements_per_page": 1,
    "current_url": "https://dailymed.nlm.nih.gov/dailymed/services/v2/spls.json?pagesize=1",
    "next_page_url": "https://dailymed.nlm.nih.gov/dailymed/services/v2/spls.json?pagesize=1&page=2",
    "total_elements": 158681,
    "total_pages": 158681,
    "current_page": 1,
    "previous_page": "null",
    "previous_page_url": "null",
    "next_page": 2
  }
}

metadataobject

Pagination — total elements, pages, current page.

dataarray

Label records.

data[].setidstring

Stable label identifier used to fetch the full document.

data[].titlestring

Full label title including drug and dosage form.

data[].published_datestring

When this label version was published.

data[].spl_versioninteger

Label version number — labels are revised over time.

• Look up official prescribing information for a medication
• Build a drug reference for clinical software
• Monitor labelling changes and safety updates
• Extract ingredient and packaging data for pharmacy systems

If DailyMed does not fit, these health & medical apis cover similar ground. Every one was called before publishing, and each links to its own reference page with a working curl command and the response it returned.