Dailymed

Skill BioTender-max/awesome-bio-agent-skills/skills/drugclaw/dailymed

Query DailyMed for FDA drug label / package insert information. Use whenever the user asks about drug labeling, SPL documents, prescribing information, NDC codes, or needs to look up current FDA-approved drug details by name or NDC. Supports single entity or batch queries.From its SKILL.md

Install

npx -y skills add BioTender-max/awesome-bio-agent-skills --skill dailymed

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SKILL.md

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DailyMed Query Skill

Search DailyMed SPL labels by drug name or NDC code. No API key required.

Input Type	Function	Returns
drug name (str)	`search_drug_labels(name, limit)`	list of label summaries
SPL set ID	`get_label_detail(set_id)`	dict (parsed from XML)
NDC code	`get_ndc_info(ndc, limit)`	list of label summaries (JSON)
str or list[str]	`query(entities, limit)`	concise text summary
list[str]	`search_batch(entities, limit)`	dict[entity → results]

API

Function	Input	Returns
`search_drug_labels(drug_name, limit=5)`	drug name string	`list[dict]` with `title`, `setid`
`get_label_detail(set_id)`	SPL set ID	`dict` (XML→dict, keys vary by label)
`get_ndc_info(ndc, limit=5)`	NDC string	`list[dict]` with `title`, `setid`
`search_batch(entities, limit=3)`	list of drug names	`dict[str, list[dict]]`
`summarize(results, entity)`	results list + label	compact text
`query(entities, limit=3)`	single str or list[str]	LLM-readable text block

Usage

See if __name__ == "__main__" block in 06_DailyMed.py for runnable examples covering: single drug search, batch multi-drug search, label detail retrieval, and NDC lookup.

Quick Examples

from importlib.machinery import SourceFileLoader
dm = SourceFileLoader("dm", "06_DailyMed.py").load_module()

# Single entity
print(dm.query("metformin"))

# Multiple entities
print(dm.query(["aspirin", "lisinopril", "atorvastatin"]))

# Full label detail
hits = dm.search_drug_labels("metformin", limit=1)
detail = dm.get_label_detail(hits[0]["setid"])

Data Source

Provider: U.S. National Library of Medicine / DailyMed
Base URL: https://dailymed.nlm.nih.gov/dailymed/services/v2
Auth: None (public API)
Note: Search (/spls.json) and NDC lookup (/spls.json?ndc=...) return JSON. Detail endpoint (/spls/{setid}.xml) is XML-only; parsed to dict automatically.

What ships with it: 5 files

11.0 KB alongside SKILL.md, 4 of them executable

dailymed_skill.pyruns4.3 KB
example.pyruns5.0 KB
__init__.pyruns138 B
README.md953 B
retrieve.pyruns752 B