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Python Daily Med

This library interacts with the United States National Library of Medicine's Daily Med API.

Installation

• Install Python requirements pip install -r ./requirements

Setup

Usage

• Read The API Documentation

Import and Instantiate

Importing an instantiating the Daily Med object:

from daily_med import DailyMed
dm = DailyMed()

Structured Product Label Metadata

get_spls mirrors the /spls interface as documented here <https://dailymed.nlm.nih.gov/dailymed/webservices-help/v2/spls_api.cfm.

To get an iterator of all SPLs:

spl_metas = dm.get_spls()

You can also perform an SPL search using any of the standard query parameters:

simvastatin_metas = dm.get_spls(drug_name='Simvastatin')

Structured Product Label Documents

Once you have a set_id for an SPL, you can get its document:

spl_document = dm.get_spl('0be2e371-1f05-48d7-8f2e-f2024f3305f3')

An SPL Document is basically just a dictionary representing the parsed XML document.

Known Issues / Road Map

• SPLDocument is only Python 2 compatible. Generate a Python3 version and integrate an import switch for py2/3. Downfall is that this will add another 6mb of code to the repo & coverage will be inaccurate because not everything is testable at once.

Credits

Images

• LasLabs: Icon.

Contributors

• Dave Lasley <dave@laslabs.com>

Maintainer

This module is maintained by LasLabs Inc.