About — FDA DrugStats

What this app does

FDA DrugStats queries the FDA drugsfda and event APIs to:

• Count drug approvals by year (all types and New Molecular Entities only).
• Export lists of approved drugs and top adverse-event terms.
• Generate CSVs and PNG plots included in this static site.

How to regenerate the site locally

Run the main script to fetch data and produce output in results/:

export FDA_API_KEY=your_api_key_here  # optional
python src/main.py

Then copy results into the site folder (use --force to overwrite):

python scripts/sync_results.py --force

Finally serve the site locally:

python -m http.server 8000 --directory docs
# then open http://localhost:8000

Notes about CI / deployment

The GitHub Actions workflow runs python src/main.py then calls python scripts/sync_results.py without --force. The sync script will skip existing files in docs/results/ unless forced, so the published site can remain unchanged even if results/ was updated. To ensure the workflow always publishes freshly generated files, update the workflow to call:

python scripts/sync_results.py --force

Further info

Source and scripts:

• src/main.py
• src/fda_client.py
• scripts/sync_results.py