What it returns
Official US National Library of Medicine RxNorm data. Free public source.
Every strength and form of the drug: RxCUI, full clinical name, generic or brand, ingredients, dose form, brand names, NDC codes, ATC class, pharmacologic class, mechanism of action and conditions it may treat.
Common uses
Pharmacy and health apps, prescription data normalisation, NDC-to-drug mapping, formulary tools, clinical research. Pay per drug product.
Request
POST https://api.pushbuild.com/rxnorm-drugs/run with a JSON body. Send your key in the X-API-Key header.
| Field | Type | Description |
|---|---|---|
drugNames | list of strings | Brand or generic names; misspellings are matched approximately. |
ndcs | list of strings | National Drug Codes (with or without dashes). |
rxcuis | list of strings | RxNorm concept IDs. |
productTypes | list of strings | Limit to generic, brand, generic pack or brand pack. Empty = all. |
includeNdcs | boolean | Package NDCs for each product. Default: true. |
includeClasses | boolean | ATC, pharmacologic class, mechanism of action and conditions treated. Default: true. |
maxItems | integer | Maximum items to return (1-500). Default: 100. |
Example
curl -X POST https://api.pushbuild.com/rxnorm-drugs/run \
-H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{"drugNames": ["Lipitor", "metformin"], "maxItems": 20}'Response
{"count": 20, "truncated": false, "seconds": 1.4, "items": [ { ... } ]}Each call returns up to 500 items. Records that fail validation or are not found are flagged in the items and not charged.
Pricing
Pay only for results returned: $0.40 per 1,000 drug products. No charge for errors or empty searches.
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