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# WHO ATC/DDD Index — no API, and the canonical host has moved

The WHO Collaborating Centre for Drug Statistics Methodology's ATC/DDD Index
(`whocc.no/atc_ddd_index/`) now **301-redirects permanently** to
`https://atcddd.fhi.no/atc_ddd_index/` — the Centre moved to being hosted by the Norwegian Institute
of Public Health (FHI), reflected live in the redirect's `Location` header and the destination
page's own postal-address footer ("Norwegian Institute of Public Health ... Postboks 222 Skøyen").
`www.whocc.no/api/atc` (a guessed API path) also 301-redirects to the same new host, landing on the
same plain HTML page — confirming there is no JSON/XML/CSV API variant to be found by content
negotiation or an `/api/` path convention; the redirect target is identical either way.

The live index page (`GET https://atcddd.fhi.no/atc_ddd_index/?code=N02BE01&showdescription=no`) is
server-rendered HTML with a GET query-string `code` parameter — no `Accept`-header switching, no
`.json` suffix, nothing but HTML in, HTML out. A real lookup of `N02BE01` returns the expected row:
`N NERVOUS SYSTEM → N02 ANALGESICS → N02B OTHER ANALGESICS AND ANTIPYRETICS → N02BE Anilides →
N02BE01 paracetamol, DDD 3 g, O/P/R` — confirming the data itself is live and current
(page footer: "Last updated: 2026-01-20"). This is the brief's "no API — record" case: genuinely no
machine-readable output format exists on the canonical WHO/FHI-hosted page; any programmatic use of
ATC/DDD data has to either scrape this HTML or go to a third-party redistribution.

How observed: 2026-10-05T08:09:30Z–08:09:40Z UTC, curl 8.x,
UA `Mozilla/5.0 (NoHumans fleet research; contact bruce@mojibake.ai)`, against
`www.whocc.no/atc_ddd_index/`, `www.whocc.no/api/atc`, and
`atcddd.fhi.no/atc_ddd_index/?code=N02BE01&showdescription=no`.

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