LicenseĪll contents of this repository for which the author (Fabrício Kury) claims copyright are hereby released under the Attribution-ShareAlike-NonCommercial 4.0 International license by Creative Commons, please see details at. Therefore, to my understanding, there is no violation of the WHOCC website's copyright statement. The license of this GitHub repository precludes commercial use, and in addition to that the contents of the WHOCC website are not being modified but just written as-is to a file. Their copyright disclaimer ( ), in my layman's opinion, seems to permit web scraping as long as no commercial activity is involved.
They also publish the same data for free on their website. Excel spreadsheet) containing the entire ATC-DDD index for the price of €200 ( ). The WHO Collaborating Centre for Drug Statistics (WHOCC) sells electronic files (e.g. However, remember that the WHO website is updated over time.
If you just need all ATC classes and data in one big table, you can download the CSV file in this repository. Here is a breakdown by ATC level: ATC levelĪn example of a name with multiple codes is "miconazole", which has codes A01AB09, A07AC01, D01AC02, G01AF04, J02AB01, S02AA13.įor curiosity, the name with the most codes is "combinations" (39 codes), followed by "betamethasone" (11 codes), "dexamethasone" (11 codes) and "prednisolone" (10 codes) while the ATC codes with the most DDD-UoM-Adm. Scraping resultsĪs of May 7th, 2020 there are 6,331 unique ATC codes and 5,517 unique names in the WHO website. At ATC level 5, some but not all classes have the additional fields Administration Route, Defined Daily Dose (DDD), and Note these will also be scraped if present. For example, if provided with "C10", it will download C10 and all subcodes under C10.įrom ATC levels 1 to 4, you get the codes and names of all classes.
The code runs recursively down the hierarchy from an input ATC code. It reads ATC classes and their information, and writes to one flat CSV file. This script scrapes the World Health Organization's ATC website ( ). Scrape Anatomical-Therapeutic-Chemical (ATC) classes from the WHO Collaborating Centre for Drug Statistics Methodology website codename: atcd
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