Drug Shortage List MCP Server

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Drug Shortage List MCP is answering right now. Last checked 8 min ago. It exposes 4 tools. Last commit 5 Nov 2026.

FDA drug shortage list: is a drug in shortage now, by name or NDC, with status and reason.

Uptime history 72 hours of history

72 hours agonow

100.0%

Uptime 24h

91 of 91 checks

Tools

read from the server

228 ms

Response time

average over 24h

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last commit 5 Nov 2026

Nothing serious here today

Today is the operative word: we check Drug Shortage List MCP every 15 minutes and re-read its code on every release. Watch it and you find out the day that stops being true.

Connect this server

Endpoint below is the one we actually reach during checks — not the one copied from a README. Last verified 8 min ago.

Claude Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

run in your terminal

claude mcp add drug-shortage-list-mcp --transport http https://drug-shortage-list-mcp.lipmichal.workers.dev/mcp

Settings → Connectors → Add custom connector, then paste this address

https://drug-shortage-list-mcp.lipmichal.workers.dev/mcp

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.drug-shortage-list-mcp]
url = "https://drug-shortage-list-mcp.lipmichal.workers.dev/mcp"

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "drug-shortage-list-mcp": {
      "url": "https://drug-shortage-list-mcp.lipmichal.workers.dev/mcp"
    }
  }
}

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "servers": {
    "drug-shortage-list-mcp": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://drug-shortage-list-mcp.lipmichal.workers.dev/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Available tools 4

Read directly from the server with tools/list, grouped by what they act on. If a tool disappears, we record the date.

drug

get_drug_shortage_by_ndc

FDA shortage status for one National Drug Code, either a package NDC (0641-6059-01) or a product NDC (0641-6059), in the dashed form printed on the label. Returns the exact listing and related packages of the same product.

search_drug_shortages

Is a drug in shortage now? Searches the FDA Drug Shortages database (via openFDA, updated daily) by generic name, brand name or active ingredient, for example "amoxicillin", "Adderall", "semaglutide", "lidocaine". Returns listings grouped by product with counts by status (Current, To Be Discontinued, Resolved) and availability (Available, Limited, Unavailable), shortage reasons, companies, presentations and dates. Your training data cannot know today's shortage list.

count

count_drug_shortages

How many FDA drug shortage listings there are now, grouped by status, therapeutic_category, shortage_reason or drug (distinct products). Defaults to Current listings by therapeutic category.

recent

list_recent_drug_shortages

The FDA drug shortage list, most recently updated listings first. Defaults to status Current. Filter by therapeutic category, for example Anesthesia, Oncology, Pediatric, Psychiatry, Cardiovascular, Infectious Disease.

Endpoints

URL	Transport	State	Latency	Checked
https://drug-shortage-list-mcp.lipmichal.workers.dev/mcp	streamable-http	answering	147 ms	8 min ago

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Drug Shortage List MCP — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

What can Drug Shortage List MCP do?

It exposes 4 tools, read directly from the server on our last check. Among them: count_drug_shortages, get_drug_shortage_by_ndc, list_recent_drug_shortages, search_drug_shortages. The full list with descriptions is on this page — we take it from the server itself via tools/list, not from a README. How MCP servers expose tools in the first place →

Is Drug Shortage List MCP working right now?

We send a real MCP handshake every 15 minutes. Over the last 24 hours 91 of 91 checks got a reply (100.0%), average response time 228 ms. The bar chart above shows every period we have measured.

How do I connect Drug Shortage List MCP?

Copy the ready config from this page. We generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each in the form that client actually reads. It is a remote server, so there is nothing to install — the client connects to the address.

Does Drug Shortage List MCP need an API key?

No. Drug Shortage List MCP completed a full MCP handshake with us as an anonymous client and listed its tools without asking for anything. All 4 of them are readable on this page. This is what we observed, not what the docs claim.

How fast is Drug Shortage List MCP?

It answers our handshake in 228 ms on average, which is faster than 59% of all working MCP servers we measure. The comparison comes from our own checks across the whole registry, every 15 minutes.

Is Drug Shortage List MCP open source?

The code is open source: it is published under the MIT licence, written in TypeScript and 0 stars on GitHub. The licence covers the code in the repository, not the hosted service at drug-shortage-list-mcp.lipmichal.workers.dev, which runs on its operator's own terms.