FDA Orange Book - FDA-Approved Drug Products Listing

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Query or inspect the FDA Orange Book - FDA-Approved Drug Products Listing resource for drug-centric tasks with emphasis on drug knowledgebase Use whenever Codex needs the calling pattern, downloadable entrypoint, or example query flow from this skill example script.

Instructions available. Your AI can read the instructions. Execution depends on the setup they require.

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Add ahel to your AI once: Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor, Claude Code or Codex. Then ask it to use this.

Then ask your AI: use the FDA Orange Book - FDA-Approved Drug Products Listing skill

What this skill tells your AI

The instructions your AI receives, as published by qsong-github/drugclaw in skills/drug_knowledgebase/fda_orange_book/SKILL.md and read by ahel’s review.

Use this file as the compact operator guide for the paired skillexamples script. Prefer reading the Python example itself for exact request parameters, field names, and response handling.

Paired Example

Script: 65_FDA_Orange_Book.py
Category: Drug-centric
Type: DB
Subcategory: Drug Knowledgebase

API Surface

Function	Purpose
`download_orange_book()`	See `65_FDA_Orange_Book.py` for exact input/output behavior.
`search_approved_drugs()`	See `65_FDA_Orange_Book.py` for exact input/output behavior.
`get_drug_approval_info()`	See `65_FDA_Orange_Book.py` for exact input/output behavior.
`preview_products_file()`	See `65_FDA_Orange_Book.py` for exact input/output behavior.

Usage

Read 65_FDA_Orange_Book.py and copy its call pattern when writing Code Agent query code. Keep network timeouts short and preserve the script's native access method (REST, direct download, local file scan, or HTML scraping).

Validation

Validation script: maintainers/smoke/65_FDA_Orange_Book_smoke_test.py
Run: python maintainers/smoke/65_FDA_Orange_Book_smoke_test.py

Notes

Review if __name__ == "__main__" in 65_FDA_Orange_Book.py first when generating runnable query code.
Primary link from the example: https://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/cder/ob/
The repository does not keep monthly Orange Book snapshots under version control; on network failure the example writes a tiny built-in offline fixture for smoke testing.
Inspect the validation script directly for its current assertions and sample entities.

Data Source

Signals

GitHub stars: 116
Forks: 3
Last commit: Aug 2026

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Advanced

Item type: skill
Key: fda-orange-book-query
Source: github.com/qsong-github/drugclaw

github.com/qsong-github/drugclaw