What input does Drug Shortage Monitor — openFDA Availability & Duration take?

All 5 inputs are optional and ship with usable defaults, so it runs as-is. They are listed with their types below.

Does Drug Shortage Monitor — openFDA Availability & Duration need an API key or login?

No. None of its inputs is a credential, and it reads only public data. Nothing to sign up for before the first run.

How do I run Drug Shortage Monitor — openFDA Availability & Duration?

It runs on Apify. Start it from its listing with the inputs above, or call the Apify API with the Actor's ID. Results land in a dataset you can export as JSON, CSV or Excel, or read through the Apify API into your own pipeline.

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Drug Shortage Monitor — openFDA Availability & Duration

Monitor US drug shortages from openFDA: product, firm, status, availability, dosage form and how long it has been in shortage. Keyless, one row per shortage episode.

Drug Shortage Monitor — openFDA Availability & Duration returns 19 documented output fields, including id, genericName, companyName, status and availability. Every field carries a declared type, a written description and an example value. 0 runs are recorded on Apify.

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19: Output fields
5: Inputs
0: Runs

01 — output

What it returns

Every field the extractor writes to its dataset, with its type, a written description and an example value.

Field	Type	What it holds	Example
id	string	Stable row identity: product, package, firm and the posting date. A shortage that recurred is a second episode with its own id.	clindamycin-phosphate-injection\|0009-0870-26\|pfizer-inc-\|03-21-2023
genericName	string	Generic name of the product in shortage.	Clindamycin Phosphate Injection
companyName	string	The company that reported or holds the product.	Pfizer Inc.
status	string	openFDA status: Current, To Be Discontinued or Resolved.	Current
availability	string	Available, Limited Availability, Unavailable — or Not stated when the record publishes no value. Not stated does not mean available.	Unavailable
dosageForm	string	Injection, Tablet, Capsule and so on.	Injection
presentation	string	The full product description including strength and NDC.	Cleocin Phosphate, Injection, 300 mg/2 mL (NDC 0009-0870-26)
therapeuticCategory	string	One or more categories, comma-separated.	Anesthesia, Pediatric
packageNdc	string	National Drug Code for the package.	0009-0870-26
initialPostedAt	string	When this shortage episode was first posted, as ISO 8601.	2023-03-21T00:00:00.000Z
updatedAt	string	Last update date on the record.	2026-10-16T00:00:00.000Z
updateType	string	New, Revised or Reverified.	Reverified
daysInShortage	number	Whole days from the posting date to this run. Null when no date was published — not 0.	1308
isCurrent	boolean	Status is Current.	true
isDiscontinued	boolean	The firm has announced discontinuation.	false
isResolved	boolean	The shortage is resolved.	false
isUnavailable	boolean	Availability is explicitly Unavailable.	true
isLimited	boolean	Availability is explicitly Limited Availability.	false
sourceUrl	string	The openFDA endpoint this row came from.	https://open.fda.gov/apis/drug/drugshortages/

02 — sample

One record

Assembled from the example values declared on the schema above, not invented at render time.

{
  "id": "clindamycin-phosphate-injection|0009-0870-26|pfizer-inc-|03-21-2023",
  "genericName": "Clindamycin Phosphate Injection",
  "companyName": "Pfizer Inc.",
  "status": "Current",
  "availability": "Unavailable",
  "dosageForm": "Injection",
  "presentation": "Cleocin Phosphate, Injection, 300 mg/2 mL (NDC 0009-0870-26)",
  "therapeuticCategory": "Anesthesia, Pediatric"
}

03 — input

What you give it

Input	Type	Description
query	stringoptional	A generic name to search for, such as insulin. Leave blank to fetch every shortage on record.
status	stringoptional	Filter by openFDA status.
includeResolved	booleanoptional	Resolved shortages are historical. Uncheck to see only live ones.
maxItems	integeroptional	Hard limit. A run that stops early says so.
timeoutSecs	integeroptional	Per page.

04 — run

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It runs in the cloud on Apify. Nothing to install, and you are billed per result returned rather than per attempt.

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05 — questions

Asked before running it

19 of 19 fields described

What does Drug Shortage Monitor — openFDA Availability & Duration return?: It returns 19 documented output fields: id, genericName, companyName, status, availability, dosageForm, presentation, therapeuticCategory, packageNdc, initialPostedAt, updatedAt and updateType. Each field declares its type, a description of what it holds, and an example value. The remaining 7 are listed in the output schema below.
What input does Drug Shortage Monitor — openFDA Availability & Duration take?: All 5 inputs are optional and ship with usable defaults, so it runs as-is. They are listed with their types below.
Does Drug Shortage Monitor — openFDA Availability & Duration need an API key or login?: No. None of its inputs is a credential, and it reads only public data. Nothing to sign up for before the first run.
How do I run Drug Shortage Monitor — openFDA Availability & Duration?: It runs on Apify. Start it from its listing with the inputs above, or call the Apify API with the Actor's ID. Results land in a dataset you can export as JSON, CSV or Excel, or read through the Apify API into your own pipeline.