Expert Witness Directory MCP Server
MCP server for the Mamba Labs Expert Witness Directory actor on Apify.
Expert witness and medico-legal directory records for the United States and Australia, one deduplicated record per person, with specialties mapped to one taxonomy.
Install
npx -y @mambalabsdev/mcp-expert-witness-directory
Claude Desktop
{
"mcpServers": {
"mamba-expert-witness-directory": {
"command": "npx",
"args": ["-y", "@mambalabsdev/mcp-expert-witness-directory"],
"env": { "APIFY_TOKEN": "your-apify-token" }
}
}
}
Get an Apify token at console.apify.com/account/integrations.
Coverage
- The actor returns records for the United States and Australia only.
- It reads 18 public sources: 7 in the US and 11 in Australia, counting ABIME once in the US. ABIME lists experts in several countries; the actor keeps only its US and Australian records.
- UK and Canadian records are not offered. The
countryinput acceptsUSandAUonly, because the public actor refuses any other country and stops the run with an error. - The same person on several directories comes back as one record listing every source.
- Every source's own specialty tags map to one taxonomy, so "Forensic Psychiatry" and "Psychiatrist, general adult" filter together.
- Australian panel sources print the panel's contact details, not the doctor's, so those records carry a name, specialty, and state but no email.
Emails
The actor never guesses an email. published_email is empty unless a source page printed an address, and email_source names the page.
Source terms
Several sources publish terms that restrict automated collection, reproduction, commercial use, or soliciting the people they list. The actor README gives the terms posture of each source as it was published when the actor was built. The actor reports the terms; it does not decide for you. Make your own call for your use case, and take legal advice where it matters.
Tool
find_expert_witnesses
Find expert witnesses and medico-legal assessors in the United States and Australia, filtered by specialty, region, country, and source.
| Input | Type | Required | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
specialty | array | no | Taxonomy codes, for example medicine.psychiatry or engineering.structural. A parent code also matches its children: medicine.psychiatry includes medicine.psychiatry.forensic. Empty returns every specialty. 55 codes. |
region | array | no | State or region as the source prints it, for example Queensland, California, New South Wales. Case and accents are ignored. Empty returns every region. |
country | array | no | US, AU, or both. Empty returns both. No other value is accepted: the public actor refuses a UK or Canadian request and stops the run. |
sources | array | no | Directories to read. Empty reads the 18 implemented sources: abime, lacourt-panels, sfbar, cccba, isba, lsba, aaimco, medilaw, lexmedicus, aushub, medicolegal-specialists, index-medicolegal, themis, integrityml, vmls, lime, mag-directory, workcover-wa. The other 17 values the actor offers are planned or not covered; the actor skips them and names them in its RUN_SUMMARY record. |
mode | string | no | list (default) returns every matching expert. feed returns only experts that are new, changed, or returned since the last run on the same persistent store, plus removed rows. Unchanged experts are not emitted and cost nothing. |
verifyNppes | boolean | no | Off by default. Checks each US record against the free NPPES monthly file and adds npi and nppes_status. NPPES carries no email. |
maxItems | integer | no | Stop after this many output rows. Default 100. 0 means no cap. A capped run never marks listings as removed. |
persistStoreName | string | no | Named key-value store in your Apify account that keeps expert records between runs. Default expert-witness-directory-store. Reuse the same name for feed mode. |
Nothing is required. A call with no inputs reads all 18 sources and returns up to 100 experts.
A run with maxItems: 0 reads every listing on every source at one request per 2 seconds per host. It has not been timed, and it may pass the 3,600 second run timeout this wrapper sets. Set maxItems for an interactive call.
Pricing
Expert Witness Directory is pay per event on Apify. Four events are billed.
| Event | Charged for | Price | Fires when |
|---|---|---|---|
expert-record | Expert record | $0.004 | Once per deduplicated expert row written to the dataset. In feed mode, once per new, changed, returned, or removed row; unchanged experts are not emitted and cost nothing. |
email-found | Email returned | $0.01 | Once per row that carries a published email a source page printed. Removed rows never charge it. |
npi-verified | NPPES check | $0.002 | Once per US row checked against the NPPES monthly file. Only when verifyNppes is on. |
apify-actor-start | Actor start | $0.00005 | Charged by Apify when the run starts, one event per GB of memory. One event at the 1024 MB default. |
Actor
Actor ID LIpwlgfE3LaQBaXd4. The wrapper calls the actor by that immutable ID rather than by its Store slug, so a Store rename never breaks it.
Built by Mamba Labs.