nathantspencer/auto_medsheet

A web scraper script for generating medication tables from PDR.net medication reference.

auto_medsheet

auto_medsheet is a tool for nursing students and others who need to quickly grab information for name brand drugs from a drug reference such as PDR.net (which is the source of information used for this tool).

Using auto medsheet is simple. Call the script with the name of the file you'd like to create as the first argument, and the name brand drugs you'd like to grab information on as subsequent arguments. Call the line below...

$ python auto_medsheet.py fileToWrite xanax abilify ablavar

And the a document like this, named fileToWrite.docx, will be created in your auto_medsheet directory!

Additional Info

All of the dependencies for auto_medsheet can be pip installed on Unix-based systems. The table setup for output is specific to the needs of nursing students local to me, but can be changed easily within the script.

If you'd like to use the tool but are unsure of how to adapt it your purposes, feel free to contact me at [email protected] and I can help you get started.

auto_medsheet's Issues

Faster navigation to drug page needed

Rather than searching based on the first letter of the drug of interest, we should search the name of the drug and grab the link to the drug page from the results of the search. Big speedup expected.

force find common drugs that aren't found via typical queries

Drugs that can't be found using their typical brand name should have directions hard-coded so that they can be found more easily. Here's a list of some drugs that need help:

• Zofran
• Norco
• Miralax
• Lidoderm
• Lopressor

medication name should be pulled from query, not pdr

Sometimes medication names pulled from PDR.net are inaccurate or not the same as the queried name. Some are not found at all. It would be better to use the .title() version of the query medication name, so that the names are filled out in the table regardless of whether they are found on PDR.net.