Clinicaltrials study search

Purpose

Query the current ClinicalTrials.gov v2 API and save structured study metadata for a condition or free-text term.

When to use

• You need official clinical study metadata.
• You want a lightweight search path for cohort or intervention discovery.

When not to use

• You need patient-level data.
• You are working against deprecated ClinicalTrials.gov API examples.

Inputs

• A condition query or a general term query
• Optional page size and output path

Outputs

• JSON payload containing studies

Requirements

• Python 3.13+
• Network access to clinicaltrials.gov

Procedure

1. Run python3 skills/clinical-biomedical-data-science/clinicaltrials-study-search/scripts/search_clinicaltrials.py --condition melanoma --page-size 3 --out skills/clinical-biomedical-data-science/clinicaltrials-study-search/assets/melanoma_studies.json.
2. Inspect the first protocolSection.identificationModule block.
3. Use the result list for follow-up triage or cohort narrowing.

Validation

• Command exits successfully.
• Output contains studies.
• A common query returns at least one study.

Failure modes and fixes

• 404 or legacy errors: use api/v2 endpoints only.
• No results: switch between --condition and --term.

Safety and limits

• Public study metadata only.
• This skill does not provide patient-level or operational medical guidance.

Examples

• python3 .../search_clinicaltrials.py --term melanoma --page-size 2

Provenance

• ClinicalTrials.gov API overview: https://clinicaltrials.gov/data-api/about-api

Related skills

• ncbi-pubmed-search