Sfda Drugs MCP server

@pipeworx/sfda-drugs

Saudi Food and Drug Authority (SFDA) MCP — Saudi Arabia's drug regulator: registered human drugs with official SAR prices, current drug shortages, recent drug approvals, clinical trials running in the Kingdom, and registered drug companies/manufacturers. Keyless.

Part of Pipeworx — an MCP gateway connecting AI agents to 1576+ live data sources.

Tools

(SAR). Scans a bounded window of the ~1,400-page list and filters locally by scientific or trade name; returns a next_page cursor to continue.

• sfdadrugsearch(query?, startpage?, pagesto_scan?) — registered drugs with official prices

code, package size, shelf life, price, and the rest of the details page.

• sfdadrugdetails(nid, id) — the full SFDA record for one list entry: register number, ATC

current shortage list; server-side filters work here.

• sfdadrugshortages(scientificname?, tradename?, registrationno?, agentname?, page?) —

first.

• sfdadrugapprovals(scientificname?, tradename?, page?) — recent drug approvals, newest

— SFDA-registered clinical trials with sponsor, phase, protocol number and hospital site.

• sfdaclinicaltrials(title?, drug?, sponsor?, protocol_number?, phase?, status?, site?, page?)

drug companies and manufacturing sites worldwide.

• sfdadrugcompanies(name?, registrationno?, productionline?, country?, page?) — registered

Auth

None. All five lists are public server-rendered HTML on www.sfda.gov.sa — no key, no login, no CAPTCHA on the data pages. The formal API host (developer.sfda.gov.sa) was unreachable when this pack was built and is not used.

Notes and traps (verified live 2026-09-07)

parameter (ScientificName, TradeName, …) on both GET and the site's own POST flow, in both locales — the parameter is echoed into the form and pager but never applied. sfdadrugsearch therefore filters client-side over a bounded page window. The other four lists apply their filters server-side correctly.

• The drugs-list search is broken on the SFDA side. /en/drugs-list ignores every filter

unrelated slice. The pack omits the parameter for page 0.

• ?page=0 is not the first page. The bare URL is page 0; ?page=0 returns a different,

pages (e.g. page 20) carry real dates like 2025-08-01; the newest rows are published before their date is.

• Blank approvaldate on the newest approvals is a source gap, not a scraping miss** — older

available), company status (مسجلة = registered), drug type (بشرية = human) and country names render in Arabic. The pack translates known enums to English and keeps the original in *_ar fields. The companies country filter only matches the Arabic value.

• Arabic enum values in otherwise-English tables. Shortage status (غير متوفر = not

printed raw); the pack returns those fields as null.

• Array as a field value on details pages is a rendering bug on the SFDA side (a PHP array

Gregorian.

• Certificate issue dates on the companies list are Hijri calendar (e.g. 1430-03-01), not

Quick Start

Add to your MCP client (Claude Desktop, Cursor, Windsurf, etc.):

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "sfda-drugs": {
      "url": "https://gateway.pipeworx.io/sfda-drugs/mcp"
    }
  }
}

What this endpoint actually serves

tools/list at https://gateway.pipeworx.io/sfda-drugs/mcp returns the tools in the table above plus the shared Pipeworx meta-tools — askpipeworx, discovertools, search_within, remember/recall and the rest of the gateway-wide set. So the tool count you see is larger than this table: a single-pack endpoint currently lists roughly 30 shared tools alongside the pack's own. The connection's initialize response states its exact scope, and is the authoritative answer for a given day.

Shortened. The full README is on GitHub.