Python wrapper around the clinicaltrials.gov API. Documentation for the API can be found here: https://clinicaltrials.gov/api/
- Free software: BSD license
- Documentation: https://pytrials.readthedocs.io.
To install:
$ pip install pytrials
from pytrials.client import ClinicalTrials ct = ClinicalTrials() # Get 50 full studies related to Coronavirus and COVID in json format. ct.get_full_studies(search_expr="Coronavirus+COVID", max_studies=50) # Get the NCTId, Condition and Brief title fields from 500 studies related to Coronavirus and Covid, in csv format. corona_fields = ct.get_study_fields( search_expr="Coronavirus+COVID", fields=["NCTId", "Condition", "BriefTitle"], max_studies=500, fmt="csv", ) # Get the count of studies related to Coronavirus and COVID. # ClinicalTrials limits API queries to 1000 records # Count of studies may be useful to build loops when you want to retrieve more than 1000 records ct.get_study_count(search_expr="Coronavirus+COVID") # Read the csv data in Pandas import pandas as pd pd.DataFrame.from_records(corona_fields[1:], columns=corona_fields[0])
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