Not directly related to the OP's story, but can be useful for someone reading these comments.

We've scraped the Drugs@FDA data as part of OpenTrialsFDA [1], a project aimed to make it easier to search their documents. It contains data from about Oct/2016, because they changed their website's layout just after we finished the scraper (if you'd like to contribute, it shouldn't be difficult to update the scraper [2]). All the data is available in a Postgres database at https://explorer.opentrials.net/data, or via https://fda.opentrials.net.

I'm happy to talk with anyone interested in this kind of data via https://gitter.im/opentrials/chat.

[1]: https://opentrials.net/opentrialsfda/ [2]: https://github.com/opentrials/opentrials/issues/705