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PubMed E-utilities (NCBI Entrez)
Search and fetch 35M+ biomedical citations and abstracts, no key required
NCBI's Entrez Programming Utilities (E-utilities) provide programmatic search and retrieval across PubMed and dozens of other NCBI databases (PMC, Gene, Nucleotide, etc.). ESearch returns matching IDs for a query; EFetch/ESummary return the records. Works without a key; a free key raises the rate limit.
Free tier
Free; works with no key, optional free API key raises limits (no card)Rate limits
3 req/sec without a key; 10 req/sec with a free key (per IP/key)Auth
API keyBase URL
https://eutils.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/eutilsWhat you'd build with it
- Literature-search skill that surfaces recent papers on a topic
- Fetch abstracts to feed a RAG/summarization pipeline
- Citation enrichment by PMID for a research automation
Key endpoints
- GET
/esearch.fcgiSearch a database, return matching UIDs - GET
/efetch.fcgiFetch full records for a list of UIDs - GET
/esummary.fcgiDocument summaries (title, authors, journal) for UIDs
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healthbiomedicalresearchsearchpubmed