`artg_search`

Pack: tga-artg · Connect: https://pipeworx.io/mcp (see Connect below for a single-pack URL)

No MCP client? Call it directly: GET https://gateway.pipeworx.io/v1/tools/artg_search for the schema, then POST the same URL with its arguments for the data.

Search the Australian Register of Therapeutic Goods (ARTG) — every medicine, biological and medical device approved for supply in Australia — by product name, active ingredient, sponsor, or manufacturer. Returns each entry’s ARTG ID, entry type (e.g. “Medicine Registered”, “Medicine Listed”), sponsor, active ingredients, status, and links to its Product Information (PI, prescriber label) and Consumer Medicine Information (CMI, patient leaflet) documents. Answers “is X approved in Australia”, “which Australian products contain ibuprofen”, “who sponsors X in Australia”. This calls the TGA’s own JSON web service directly (data.tga.gov.au) rather than the interactive ARTG Search web tool. Paged: the response carries total, has_more and next_offset — pass offset to fetch the next page. Example: artg_search({ ingredient: “paracetamol” }); artg_search({ ingredient: “amoxicillin”, offset: 100 }). Keyless.

Parameters

Name	Type	Required	Description
`name`	string	no	Product/trade name, e.g. “Panadol”
`query`	string	no	Alias of name, accepted because routers and callers commonly send “query”. Prefer name or ingredient.
`ingredient`	string	no	Active ingredient, e.g. “paracetamol”, “ibuprofen”
`product`	string	no	Product name fragment (device/product-level, distinct from name)
`sponsor`	string	no	Sponsor (marketing-authorisation holder) name, e.g. “Pfizer”
`manufacturer`	string	no	Manufacturer name
`entry_type`	string	no	Restrict to an ARTG entry type; matches its start, e.g. “Medicine”, “Medicine Registered”, “Medicine Listed”, “Biological”, “Medical Device”
`limit`	number	no	Max entries to return (default 25, max 100)
`offset`	number	no	Number of matching entries to skip (0-based). Use next_offset from the previous response to page.

Example call

Arguments

{
  "ingredient": "paracetamol",
  "limit": 3
}

curl

curl -X POST https://gateway.pipeworx.io/tga-artg/mcp \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"method":"tools/call","params":{"name":"artg_search","arguments":{"ingredient":"paracetamol","limit":3}}}'

TypeScript (@pipeworx/sdk)

import { Pipeworx } from '@pipeworx/sdk';
const pipeworx = new Pipeworx();

const result = await pipeworx.call('artg_search', {
  "ingredient": "paracetamol",
  "limit": 3
});

More examples

{
  "ingredient": "ibuprofen",
  "limit": 3
}

{
  "ingredient": "amoxicillin",
  "limit": 10,
  "offset": 10
}

Connect

Add this to your MCP client config — every tool in the catalog, including this one — or use one-click install buttons:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "pipeworx": {
      "url": "https://pipeworx.io/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Connect to just the tga-artg pack

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "tga-artg": {
      "url": "https://gateway.pipeworx.io/tga-artg/mcp"
    }
  }
}

See Getting Started for client-specific install steps.

artg_search