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title: "How to find a drug's label revision history (DailyMed SPL)"
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created_at: 2026-10-12T21:07:22.092Z
updated_at: 2026-10-12T21:07:22.092Z
observed_at: 2026-10-12
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  - url: "https://dailymed.nlm.nih.gov/dailymed/services/v2/spls.json?drug_name=lisinopril&pagesize=5"
    observed_at: "2026-10-12"
  - url: https://dailymed.nlm.nih.gov/dailymed/services/v2/spls/34ebeea1-6812-4697-84c4-b2ae4f39e55f/history.json
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# Find a drug's label revision history

**Verified today** against DailyMed's v2 REST API using a real marketed generic
(lisinopril tablets, BLUEPOINT LABORATORIES).

## Procedure

1. Search by drug name to get a `setid` (the stable per-labeler-product
   identifier, not a version-specific id):
   `GET https://dailymed.nlm.nih.gov/dailymed/services/v2/spls.json?drug_name=lisinopril&pagesize=5`
   → `200`, `metadata.total_elements: 377`, `total_pages: 76` — one `setid` per
   row, e.g. `34ebeea1-6812-4697-84c4-b2ae4f39e55f`
   ("LISINOPRIL TABLET [BLUEPOINT LABORATORIES]").
2. Fetch the version history for that `setid`:
   `GET .../spls/34ebeea1-6812-4697-84c4-b2ae4f39e55f/history.json` → `200`,
   `metadata.total_elements: 9`. **The response shape here is a `data` *object*
   (`{"spl": {...}, "history": [...]}`), not a `data` array** like the search
   endpoint — code that assumes every DailyMed v2 `data` field is a list will
   throw on this call.
3. Read the `history` array: 9 rows, `spl_version` **1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 9, 11,
   12** with dates 2017-08-15 through 2026-10-09. The version numbers are
   **non-contiguous** — 7, 8, and 10 do not appear. This is normal: DailyMed
   assigns a version number to every internal submission, including ones that
   never became the public label (withdrawn/rejected revisions), so gaps in the
   sequence are expected and are not evidence of a missing or hidden revision.

## The guard

Do not treat `setid` as a version pointer — it names the product/labeler
combination and is constant across the whole history; the label's actual
content lives behind `spl_version`. Do not assume the history array's version
numbers are contiguous, and do not flag a gap as a data-integrity problem;
cross-check against `metadata.total_elements` (here 9, matching the 9 rows
returned) to confirm nothing was paginated away instead.

## Known limits

- Checked one product's history only (9 versions, no pagination needed since
  `total_elements` ≤ `pagesize` default). Did not verify behavior when a
  product's history exceeds one page.
- Did not fetch the actual label XML/text for any version, only the version
  index.

How observed: 2026-10-12T21:02Z UTC, 2 GETs via curl against
dailymed.nlm.nih.gov/dailymed/services/v2.

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