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Health Drug Shortages

by x402Pulse in Search & web

x402 APIPassing, checked 3 h ago

FDA drug shortages: which medicines are in shortage now, grouped by drug, with availability (unavailable or limited) per package, companies, dosage forms, shortage reasons, estimated recovery notes and posting dates. Search one drug or list current shortages. For hospitals, pharmacies and supply chains. openFDA data, not medical advice.

GET
https://www.x402pulse.dev/v1/health/drug-shortages
Price
$0.018
per call in USDC
Uptime
96.0%
last 30 days
Response time
659 ms
1.3 s slowest 5%
Last check
Passed
3 h ago, next any minute now

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How to call it

GET https://www.x402pulse.dev/v1/health/drug-shortages

Each call costs $0.0175 in USDC on Base, paid with the request over x402.

Run a free test callOne unpaid request, the way an agent sends it. You see the payment challenge it gets back. Nothing is charged.

Example request

From the listing.

GET https://www.x402pulse.dev/v1/health/drug-shortages?drug=amoxicillin

Parameters

ParameterTypeRequiredDescription
drugstringNoDrug brand or generic name
limitstringNo1 to 50
statusstringNo One of: current, resolved, discontinued, all.

Example response

The provider's example. We can't check it without paying.

Example response, 27 lines
{
  "cached": false,
  "data": {
    "drugs": [
      {
        "availability": {
          "Limited": 2,
          "Unavailable": 2
        },
        "companies": [
          "Baxter Healthcare Corporation"
        ],
        "drug": "Amino Acid Injection",
        "firstPosted": "2020-12-08",
        "lastUpdated": "2026-09-30",
        "packages": 4,
        "recoveryNotes": [
          "Estimated recovery: December 2026"
        ]
      }
    ],
    "drugsFound": 1,
    "packagesFound": 4,
    "query": "amino acid injection",
    "status": "current"
  }
}

Call it from code

The curl command shows the payment challenge. The JavaScript and Python versions pay and call, and never pay more than $0.0175.

curl: see the payment challenge
# bash or zsh: see the payment challenge. Nothing is charged.
curl -sS -g -i 'https://www.x402pulse.dev/v1/health/drug-shortages?drug=amoxicillin'

# x402 v2 sends the challenge base64-encoded in the PAYMENT-REQUIRED header (v1 sends it in the body).
# To read the header:
curl -sS -g -o /dev/null -D - 'https://www.x402pulse.dev/v1/health/drug-shortages?drug=amoxicillin' \
  | grep -i '^payment-required:' | cut -d' ' -f2 | tr -d '\r' | base64 --decode
JavaScript: pay and call
// npm i @x402/fetch @x402/evm viem
import { wrapFetchWithPayment, x402Client } from "@x402/fetch";
import { registerExactEvmScheme } from "@x402/evm/exact/client";
import { privateKeyToAccount } from "viem/accounts";

// Pays at most $0.0175 per call.
const client = new x402Client().setSpendControls({ maxAmountPerPayment: "$0.0175" });
registerExactEvmScheme(client, { signer: privateKeyToAccount(process.env.EVM_PRIVATE_KEY) });
const pay = wrapFetchWithPayment(fetch, client);

// Not sure it's safe to pay? ToolVet checks it first for $0.005. Pay for that from a separate
// client: this one is capped at $0.0175 per payment. GET https://toolvet.app/api/v1/check?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.x402pulse.dev%2Fv1%2Fhealth%2Fdrug-shortages
const res = await pay("https://www.x402pulse.dev/v1/health/drug-shortages?drug=amoxicillin");
console.log(res.status, await res.text());
Python: pay and call
# pip install "x402[requests,evm]"
import os
from eth_account import Account
from x402 import x402ClientSync
from x402.http.clients import x402_requests
from x402.mechanisms.evm import EthAccountSigner
from x402.mechanisms.evm.exact.register import register_exact_evm_client

# Pays at most $0.0175 per call.
client = x402ClientSync().set_spend_controls({"max_amount_per_payment": "$0.0175"})
register_exact_evm_client(client, EthAccountSigner(Account.from_key(os.environ["EVM_PRIVATE_KEY"])))

with x402_requests(client) as session:
    res = session.get("https://www.x402pulse.dev/v1/health/drug-shortages?drug=amoxicillin")
    print(res.status_code, res.text)

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