# openFDA Device Adverse Events Scraper (`neuton/openfda-device-adverse-events-scraper`) Actor

Search FDA MAUDE medical device adverse event records through openFDA. Export report numbers, event types, dates, manufacturers, device names, patient outcomes, and narrative text.

- **URL**: https://apify.com/neuton/openfda-device-adverse-events-scraper.md
- **Developed by:** [Ashwin Prasad](https://apify.com/neuton) (community)
- **Categories:** Business, AI, Automation
- **Stats:** 2 total users, 1 monthly users, 100.0% runs succeeded, 0 bookmarks
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## Pricing

$3.00 / 1,000 results

This Actor is paid per event. You are not charged for the Apify platform usage, but only a fixed price for specific events.

Learn more: https://docs.apify.com/platform/actors/running/actors-in-store#pay-per-event

## What's an Apify Actor?

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and optionally produces a well-defined JSON output, datasets with results, or files in key-value store.
In Standby mode, an Actor provides a web server which can be used as a website, API, or an MCP server.
Actors are written with capital "A".

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For usage examples, see the [API](#api) section below.

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# README

## openFDA Device Adverse Events Scraper

Search FDA MAUDE medical device adverse event reports through openFDA for health-tech compliance, device safety surveillance, competitor monitoring, clinical risk research, and regulatory intelligence.

### What it returns

- MDR report key and report number
- Event type, event date, and received date
- Manufacturer, device name, product code, patient outcome
- Event description and manufacturer narrative when published
- Official MAUDE detail URL and raw openFDA record

The actor supports optional openFDA API keys for higher production rate limits, but small runs work without a key.

### Common use cases

- Monitor medical device adverse event reports for safety surveillance
- Track manufacturer, device, product code, and patient outcome patterns
- Support regulatory intelligence, complaint trend analysis, and post-market monitoring
- Enrich health-tech compliance dashboards, RAG systems, and analyst workflows
- Build competitor and product-risk datasets from official MAUDE/openFDA records

### Agent and automation workflows

Use this actor as an official MAUDE/openFDA data connector for Apify schedules, webhooks, BI dashboards, health-tech compliance monitors, and AI agents. Agents can watch a device name, manufacturer, or product code, summarize new event narratives, and send structured rows into internal safety-review queues.

### Sample input

```json
{
  "searchTerms": [
    "x-ray"
  ],
  "maxResultsPerSearch": 5
}
```

### SEO keywords

openFDA device adverse events scraper, MAUDE adverse event API, medical device safety data, FDA device event reports, medical device complaint monitoring, device manufacturer intelligence, product code adverse events.

### Pricing recommendation

Launch around $3 per 1,000 adverse-event rows. Increase toward $5 per 1,000 rows after recurring health-tech, regulatory, or product-safety monitoring usage appears.

### Responsible use

This actor uses public FDA/openFDA records. It is intended for monitoring and research, not medical advice; validate critical safety decisions against the official FDA source and qualified reviewers.

# Actor input Schema

## `searchTerms` (type: `array`):

openFDA search terms, for example x-ray, pacemaker, glucose, robotic surgical.

## `productCodes` (type: `array`):

Optional FDA product codes to search in device.device\_report\_product\_code.

## `dateFrom` (type: `string`):

Optional YYYYMMDD lower bound for date\_of\_event.

## `dateTo` (type: `string`):

Optional YYYYMMDD upper bound for date\_of\_event.

## `maxResultsPerSearch` (type: `integer`):

Maximum rows per search.

## `openFdaApiKey` (type: `string`):

Optional API key for higher openFDA rate limits.

## Actor input object example

```json
{
  "maxResultsPerSearch": 50
}
```

# Actor output Schema

## `results` (type: `string`):

No description

# API

You can run this Actor programmatically using our API. Below are code examples in JavaScript, Python, and CLI, as well as the OpenAPI specification and MCP server setup.

## JavaScript example

```javascript
import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';

// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
const client = new ApifyClient({
    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
});

// Prepare Actor input
const input = {};

// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
const run = await client.actor("neuton/openfda-device-adverse-events-scraper").call(input);

// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
console.log('Results from dataset');
console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
items.forEach((item) => {
    console.dir(item);
});

// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

```

## Python example

```python
from apify_client import ApifyClient

# Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
# Replace '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token.
client = ApifyClient("<YOUR_API_TOKEN>")

# Prepare the Actor input
run_input = {}

# Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
run = client.actor("neuton/openfda-device-adverse-events-scraper").call(run_input=run_input)

# Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if there are any)
print(f"💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/{run.default_dataset_id}")
for item in client.dataset(run.default_dataset_id).iterate_items():
    print(item)

# 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/python/docs/quick-start

```

## CLI example

```bash
echo '{}' |
apify call neuton/openfda-device-adverse-events-scraper --silent --output-dataset

```

## MCP server setup

```json
{
    "mcpServers": {
        "apify": {
            "type": "http",
            "url": "https://mcp.apify.com/?tools=fetch-actor-details,neuton/openfda-device-adverse-events-scraper"
        }
    }
}

```

The hosted server signs you in with OAuth on first connect, so no API token belongs in this config. Clients without OAuth support can send an `Authorization: Bearer <APIFY_API_TOKEN>` header instead, using a token from API & Integrations in Apify Console (https://console.apify.com/settings/integrations).

## OpenAPI specification

Download the OpenAPI definition: https://api.apify.com/v2/actors/MObgCCKLFHbh8l21v/builds/1wxHnHrXesbPZ25lh/openapi.json