pytrials¶
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.
Tutorial¶
To install:
$ pip install pytrials
Basic Usage¶
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])
Credits¶
This package was created with Cookiecutter and the audreyr/cookiecutter-pypackage project template.