💊 FDA Drug Shortage Supply Intelligence

Turn the FDA's presentation-level shortage feed into procurement-ready supply signals. Filter by drug, manufacturer, therapeutic category, status or update date; export both detailed NDC presentations and grouped drug summaries.

What is different

Generic openFDA Actors return raw shortage rows. This Actor additionally calculates shortage age, normalizes dates, flags constrained presentations, counts distinct and currently available suppliers per drug, creates portfolio-level risk summaries, and fingerprints each NDC so scheduled runs can emit only new or changed records.

📤 Output

• Drug, brand, NDC, company, dosage form, strength and presentation
• Current availability, shortage status/reason and FDA update date
• Therapeutic categories, application numbers, routes, ingredients and RxCUIs
• Days since the initial shortage posting
• Drug summary: supplier count, available supplier count, constrained presentation count and deterministic risk level
• new, updated or unchanged checkpoint state plus the official FDA evidence link

Monitoring workflow

Create a Task with onlyChanges: true, schedule it daily, and connect the dataset to email, Slack, a webhook, Make, Zapier or Google Sheets. The first run establishes a baseline; later runs output only new or materially changed presentations.

Example input

{"therapeuticCategory":"Oncology","statuses":["Current"],"availabilityRiskOnly":true,"outputMode":"both","onlyChanges":false,"maxItems":100}

💰 Pricing

Pay per result with separate low-cost events for presentation records and higher-value grouped supply summaries. Use maxItems and Apify's per-run charge limit to cap spend.

Data comes from the official openFDA Drug Shortages endpoint. This Actor is an independent data tool and is not affiliated with the FDA.

📥 Complete input reference

Field	Type	Default	Purpose
genericName	string	—	Example: cisplatin, fentanyl or methotrexate.
companyName	string	—	Keep records whose FDA company name contains this text.
therapeuticCategory	string	—	Filter categories such as Oncology, Anesthesia or Pediatric.
statuses	array	["Current"]	Current and/or resolved shortage records.
availabilityRiskOnly	boolean	false	Exclude presentations the FDA marks Available.
updatedSince	string	—	ISO date YYYY-MM-DD. Leave empty for all current records.
outputMode	string	"both"	Choose presentation rows, grouped drug summaries, or both.
onlyChanges	boolean	false	Stores fingerprints in the task key-value store for scheduled monitoring.
maxItems	integer	100	Hard cap on matching FDA presentation records processed in this run.

📤 Complete output reference

The default dataset is exportable as JSON, CSV, Excel, XML or RSS. Fields remain stable for scheduled runs and API integrations.

Field	Type
recordType	string
recordKey	string
genericName	string
proprietaryName	string
packageNdc	string
companyName	string
availability	string
status	string
riskLevel	string
changeType	string
supplierCount	integer / null
availableSupplierCount	integer / null
unavailablePresentationCount	integer / null
daysSinceInitialPosting	integer / null
updateDate	string
initialPostingDate	string
dosageForm	string
strength	array
presentation	string
therapeuticCategories	array
shortageReason	string
relatedInfo	string
applicationNumbers	array
routes	array
substances	array
rxcui	array
officialSourceUrl	string
sourceLastUpdated	string / null
scrapedAt	string

🔌 API & integrations

Run this Actor from the Apify Console, API, CLI, MCP, Make, Zapier or n8n. Replace the Actor identifier and token in this template:

curl -X POST "https://api.apify.com/v2/acts/fda-drug-shortage-supply-intelligence/runs?token=YOUR_TOKEN" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{}'

Results are stored in the run's default dataset and can be forwarded with Apify webhooks or scheduled Tasks.

🔎 Search keywords

FDA Drug Shortage Supply Intelligence, fda, drug, shortage, supply, intelligence, Apify Actor, scraper API, structured data, scheduled monitor, automation.