# NPPES NPI Registry Scraper & Lookup - Healthcare Provider Leads

A lead generation tool your agent can run on one prepaid apifare key. Page: https://apifare.com/tools/pink_comic/nppes-npi-registry

## What you need

An apifare key with credits (sign up: POST https://apifare.com/v1/signup {"email": "..."}; new accounts get 500 free credits). No other account or key.

## Inputs

- `searchType` (string): Search Type (e.g. "npi")
- `firstName` (string): First Name
- `lastName` (string): Last Name
- `organizationName` (string): Organization Name
- `npi` (string): NPI Number
- `taxonomyDescription` (string): Specialty / Taxonomy

The most relevant fields; the search result's input_schema lists all of them.

## Price

5 credits reserved per run, settled to the run's true cost, never more than 20 credits (1 credit = $0.01). Failed runs are refunded. Exact numbers: https://apifare.com/capabilities

## Run it

1. Find it: MCP search_apis, or GET https://apifare.com/v1/search?q=NPPES%20NPI%20Registry%20Scraper%20%26%20Lookup%20-%20Healthcare%20Provider%20Leads with Authorization: Bearer <token>. Take the result named "NPPES NPI Registry Scraper & Lookup - Healthcare Provider Leads"; it carries a proxy_route.
2. Run it: MCP proxy_call with that proxy_route and the input JSON (apifare-mcp over stdio), or POST the proxy_route over HTTP with the input JSON as the body and the same Authorization header.
3. On HTTP 402, relay the body's human_readable field to your human verbatim, wait, then retry the same call. Every other error and its fix: https://apifare.com/errors.md