PubMed Central API
Provides access to PubMed Central, a free full-text archive of biomedical and life sciences journal literature, via NCBI E-utilities. Supports searching articles, fetching full-text records and summaries, converting between article identifiers (PMID, PMCID, DOI), and querying the Open Access Subset.
Screenshot:
Slug: pubmed-central
Key:
Base URL:
Auth: none
Endpoints: 9
Category: literature
Reachable: yes
CORS: unknown
Tier: verified
Last checked: 2026-03-14 16:08:50.610209
Key:
nih.gov:pubmed-central-apiBase URL:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/Auth: none
Endpoints: 9
Category: literature
Reachable: yes
CORS: unknown
Tier: verified
Last checked: 2026-03-14 16:08:50.610209
Links
API Base:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/
Documentation:
- For Developers official
Topics
Tutorials
- Getting Started with PubMed Central API — I can search PubMed Central's archive of over 12 million biomedical articles, retrieve titles, authors, DOIs, and summaries by PMCID, and convert between PMID, PMCID, and DOI — all through NCBI's E-utilities API with no authentication required for basic use.
Skills
- Search pmc articles — I can search PubMed Central's archive of over 12 million biomedical articles by keyword, title phrase, or MeSH term and retrieve titles, authors, and DOIs — through NCBI's E-utilities API with no auth required for basic use.
- Search pubmed central articles — I can search PubMed Central's biomedical article archive by keyword, title, author, or MeSH term using fielded queries — results are PMCID lists, so pair with esummary or efetch to get metadata and full text.
Endpoints (9)
| Path | Summary | Response | Auth |
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| api/ctxp/v1/articles | Get formatted citations | text/html |
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| efetch.fcgi | Fetch full records | text/html |
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| einfo.fcgi | Get database information | text/html |
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| elink.fcgi | Find related data | text/html |
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| epost.fcgi | Upload UIDs to server | text/html |
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| esearch.fcgi | Search PubMed Central | text/html |
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| esummary.fcgi | Get document summaries | text/html |
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| tools/idconv/api/v1/articles/ | Convert between PMID, PMCID, and DOI | application/json |
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| utils/oa/oa.fcgi | Get OA article metadata | text/xml |
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