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🔹 Extract SFDA Registered Drugs List
👤 Client: 🇹🇭 Thailand Member since 2022-09-03
💰 Price: ****
🚩 Problem: Scrape data from the SFDA website to extract drug information into a structured format.
📦 Existing: [Stack]

Specifications:

[Target] Extract drug registration details including name, manufacturer, country of manufacture, marketing company, and registration number.
[Method] Use web scraping tools like BeautifulSoup or Scrapy for data extraction. Ensure pagination handling to scrape all pages.
[UI/UX] Not applicable
[Stack] Python with libraries such as requests, BeautifulSoup, or Scrapy; Excel for file export
[Security] Ensure compliance with SFDA guidelines and privacy laws. Use secure methods for data storage and transmission.
[Format] Export data to a single clean .xlsx file with one row per drug registration.

Workflow:

Analyze the SFDA website structure to identify key elements (drug name, manufacturer, country of manufacture, marketing company, registration number).
Set up web scraping environment using Python and necessary libraries.
Implement pagination handling to ensure all pages are scraped comprehensively.
Extract required fields for each drug listed on the site.
Clean and validate extracted data, ensuring no duplicates and all text is in English (transliterate if needed).
Export cleaned data into a single .xlsx file with one row per drug registration.