@pipeworx/aphis-animal-care

Connect: https://gateway.pipeworx.io/aphis-animal-care/mcp · Install: one-click buttons

Tools: 3

USDA Animal Welfare Act licensees and registrants — commercial dog breeders, dealers, exhibitors, carriers and research facilities — together with the APHIS Animal Care inspection reports written about them, their critical/direct violation counts and links to the official signed report PDFs.

Tools

• aphis_licensee_search(state?, license_type?, name?, city?, zip?, certificate_number?, customer_number?, kind?, status?, limit?, page?) — who holds an AWA licence or registration. Answers “USDA licensed dog breeders in Missouri”, “look up certificate 43-A-6814”, “is this kennel USDA licensed”. Returns name, certificate number, licence class, certificate status (Active / Cancelled / Revoked), facility city/county/ZIP.
• aphis_inspection_reports(state?, license_type?, name?, city?, zip?, certificate_number?, customer_number?, animal_category?, citation?, teachable_moments_only?, limit?, page?) — Animal Care inspection reports with inspection date, licensee, location, counts of critical / direct / non-critical violations and teachable moments, and report_pdf_url (the official signed report).
• aphis_inspection_filter_options(query?, kind?, limit?) — the 34 animal categories and 2,165 AWA citation section codes the inspection filters accept.

Auth

Keyless. No account, no cookies, no session token.

Data sources

• https://efile.aphis.usda.gov/PublicSearchTool/s/sfsites/aura — the Aura endpoint behind the USDA APHIS eFile Public Search Tool. Actions used: apex://EFL_PSTController/ACTION$doCustomerQuery (licensees/registrants), …$doIRSearch_UI (inspection reports), …$getSearchSetup (state and licence-type vocabularies), …$getIRSearchFilters (animal categories, citation section codes).

Things the next person would otherwise rediscover the hard way

There is no documented REST API for this data and no key. The Public Search Tool is a Salesforce Lightning community; its search runs over the Aura endpoint. The Apex class and methods were captured by driving one real search in a headless Chrome under CDP and reading the request off the wire — blind guessing at Apex class names does not work, because a wrong class and a wrong method return the byte-identical No apex action available for X.y.

• “Guest user access is not allowed” is not a policy block. A malformed or missing aura.context returns that message with descriptor aura:invalidSession, which reads as a hard refusal of anonymous callers. It is not — the endpoint serves guests. Measured 2026-09-05, aura.context needs nothing beyond {"mode":"PROD","app":"siteforce:communityApp"}.
• fwuid does not matter. A bogus fwuid, and an omitted one, both return SUCCESS. This pack therefore does not scrape a framework version off the page and cannot break when Salesforce rolls it.
• index is a page number, not a row offset, and the upstream caps the underlying SOQL offset at 2,000 rows: page * page_size <= 2000. Past that it throws Maximum SOQL offset allowed for apiName EFLLicense__c is 2000. totalCount is still the true unpaged count (4,986 Class A breeder licences in Missouri alone), so narrow rather than page.
• irFilterCriteria keys are SINGULAR. animalCategory and sectionCode each take one Salesforce id. The plural animalCategories: [id] is silently ignored and returns the unfiltered count with a 200 — a silent wrong answer, not an error.
• No date filter exists on the inspection search. inspectionDateFrom, fromDate and startDate are all ignored. Filter caller-side on inspection_date.
• A licence record is not a business. One person appears once per certificate, and most rows in any state are Cancelled historical licences. status: "active" is the argument that matters for “who is licensed today”.
• sObjectType selects the register: EFLLicense__c (Class A/B/C licensees) vs EFLRegistration__c (registrants — research facilities, carriers, intermediate handlers).

Tools

• aphis_licensee_search — Find USDA Animal Welfare Act licence and registration holders — commercial dog breeders (Class A), animal dealers (Class B), exhibitors/zoos (Class C), carriers, intermediate handlers and research fac
• aphis_inspection_reports — Search USDA APHIS Animal Care inspection reports — the inspections behind Animal Welfare Act enforcement. Answers “inspection reports for USDA dog breeders in Missouri”, “which breeders had critical v
• aphis_inspection_filter_options — List the filter vocabularies aphis_inspection_reports accepts: the 34 animal categories (DOGS, CATS, NONHUMAN PRIMATES, MARINE MAMMALS, …) and the 2,165 Animal Welfare Act citation section codes (e.