openFDA Drug Shortages Scraper

Extract official FDA drug shortage records from openFDA. This actor is built for healthcare procurement, pharmacy operations, supply-chain monitoring, pharmaceutical intelligence, and shortage alerting workflows.

What it extracts

• Generic name, package NDC, company name, shortage status, availability, and shortage reason
• Initial posting date, update date, therapeutic category, dosage form, presentation, and contact information
• openFDA metadata, source URL, raw FDA payload, and scrape timestamp

Use cases

• Monitor current FDA drug shortages
• Support pharmacy, hospital, and distributor supply-chain workflows
• Build shortage dashboards and alerting systems
• Enrich procurement and healthcare operations pipelines with official FDA shortage data

Agent and automation workflows

Use this actor as an official FDA drug shortage feed for Apify schedules, webhooks, pharmacy operations dashboards, procurement alerts, healthcare supply-chain monitors, and AI agents. The dataset is structured for Google Sheets, Airtable, Snowflake, BI tools, Make, Zapier, n8n, and internal alerting systems.

Common automation patterns:

• Daily shortage watchlists for key generic names or manufacturers
• Hospital and pharmacy procurement alerts when shortage status changes
• Pharma market-intelligence datasets by therapeutic category
• Distributor and supply-chain monitoring for availability, reasons, and update dates
• RAG or AI-agent workflows that summarize current FDA shortage pressure

Input

Filter by status, generic name, company name, therapeutic category, and max results.

Example input

{
  "status": "Current",
  "genericName": "amoxicillin",
  "maxResults": 25
}

Output

Each dataset row represents one FDA shortage record with normalized shortage status, generic name, package NDC, company name, availability, reason, posting date, update date, dosage form, therapeutic category, contact details when present, openFDA metadata, source URL, scrape timestamp, and raw source data for auditability.

SEO keywords

FDA drug shortages scraper, openFDA drug shortage API, drug shortage data, pharmacy procurement data, hospital supply chain monitoring, pharma shortage alerts, FDA shortage list export, healthcare operations intelligence.

Responsible use

This actor uses official FDA/openFDA public records. It is intended for research, procurement, compliance, and operational monitoring; validate critical clinical or supply decisions against the official FDA source.

Pricing guidance

Recommended launch pricing: $3-$4 per 1,000 shortage rows, increasing toward $5-$7 per 1,000 after recurring healthcare supply-chain usage appears.