Ftc Enforcement MCP server

@pipeworx/ftc-enforcement

FTC (Federal Trade Commission) cases and proceedings — competition/merger enforcement and consumer-protection enforcement together, by company, case/matter number, topic, or date. Complements hsr-notices (the earliest signal that a merger was filed for antitrust review) and enforcement-actions (DOJ press releases and SEC litigation/administrative feeds) with the FTC's own case record: complaints, consent orders, settlements, case status, and the federal court involved.

Part of Pipeworx — an MCP gateway connecting AI agents to 1704+ live data sources. This is an independent, unofficial integration — not affiliated with, endorsed by, or published by the upstream provider.

Tools

• ftcsearchcases(query?, category?, status?, startdate?, enddate?, limit=20) — search cases/proceedings by company name, individual name, case/matter number, or keyword. category restricts to merger, nonmerger (conduct enforcement), or both (any, default). status restricts to pending, closed, or under_order.
• ftccasedetail(slug) — one case's status, federal court (if any), full party caption, case summary, linked press release, and complete document timeline (complaint, orders, settlements, briefs) each with its filing date, title, and PDF URL. Takes the slug field returned by ftcsearchcases/ftcrecentactions (the last path segment of the case's ftc.gov URL) or a full case URL.
• ftcrecentactions(days=30, category?, limit=20) — the newest cases/proceedings, optionally restricted to merger or non-merger enforcement.

Merger vs. non-merger

category: "merger" / "nonmerger" maps to the FTC's own "Competition Topics" facet (fieldcompetitiontopics=708 / 711 on the live search form) — the only filter on ftc.gov's own search that actually splits merger enforcement from non-merger (conduct) enforcement. fieldcaseactiontype (Federal/Administrative/ProcessEnforcement) and fieldenforcement_type do not make that distinction.

Data source

Scraped live from https://www.ftc.gov/legal-library/browse/cases-proceedings, the FTC's own Drupal Views search page. There is no structured feed for this content: api.ftc.gov (the JSON:API broker the hsr-notices pack uses) only documents two resource types — HSR early-termination notices and Do Not Call complaints (verified against FederalTradeCommission/ftc-api-docs, 2026-10-07) — and /jsonapi, /v0/cases, /v0/legal-library-items and similar guesses all 404. This pack issues the same GET a browser issues against the public search form and parses the HTML it returns: a live per-request proxy of public FTC data, not a mirrored dataset.

Every response carries dataasof via each case's own last_updated field (the FTC's own "Last Updated" date) and url/documents[].url back to ftc.gov and the underlying PDFs.

Reachability note

Shortened. The full README is on GitHub.