PubMed Scraper
36M+ biomedical articles, abstracts, and MeSH terms
What it does
Search 36 million PubMed biomedical articles by query, author, or MeSH term. Returns PMID, title, abstract, authors, journal, and DOI. The primary biomedical literature source, no API key required.
Built in
- ✓ Search 36M+ biomedical articles
- ✓ PMID, abstract, authors, and DOI
- ✓ Filter by query, author, or MeSH term
- ✓ Ideal for systematic reviews and RAG
- ✓ Empty results are never charged
Guides & tutorials
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One call across OpenAlex, Crossref, arXiv, PubMed and OpenCitations: works, preprints, biomedical abstracts, citation graphs, and every output field.
arXiv Scraper: Search AI, Physics, and Biology Preprints with PDF Links via API
Search arXiv preprints by keyword, category, or author. Returns title, abstract, authors, categories, and PDF links. Track AI research before peer review. No API key required.
NIH RePORTER API: Search Grant Funding, Award Amounts, and Principal Investigators
Search NIH grant awards by topic, agency, institution, or state. Returns project title, abstract, award amount, and PI data for research funding intelligence. No API key required.
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Common questions
What can I search by? +
A free text query, an author name, or a MeSH term. All three map to the same structured output.
What is returned per article? +
PMID, title, abstract, author list, journal and DOI.
Do I need an NCBI API key? +
No. The actor runs without a key and without an account.
How much of PubMed is covered? +
The full index, currently more than 36 million biomedical articles.
Is it suitable for systematic reviews? +
Yes. Abstracts and DOIs come back on every record, which is what a screening pass or a RAG pipeline needs. Empty searches add no result charges.
Can I restrict to a date range or journal? +
Yes. Query syntax follows PubMed itself, so the field tags you already use there, including date and journal filters, work unchanged.
Does it return the full text? +
No. It returns the abstract, which is what PubMed exposes. Full text sits with the publisher or on PubMed Central.
Is there a cap on results per run? +
No hard cap. A broad query simply returns more rows, and you are billed per article delivered, so the query itself is the throttle.
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