PubMed/NCBI API - Biomedical Literature & Citations

API Integration

This actor connects to an external API service. You'll need valid API credentials from the service provider.

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API Integration

This actor connects to an external API service. You'll need valid API credentials from the service provider.

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Access PubMed and NCBI databases for biomedical literature. Search publications, get article abstracts, citation data, author profiles, and journal metrics. Essential for scientific research and pharma intelligence.

Features

• Search Articles: Full-text search across PubMed database
• Get Article: Detailed article metadata by PMID
• Get Citations: Citation counts and citing articles
• Search by Author: Find publications by researcher
• Search by Journal: Publications in specific journals
• Get Abstracts: Batch abstract retrieval
• Search MeSH: Search by Medical Subject Headings
• Get Related: Find related articles
• Demo Mode: Test with sample data

Quick Start

{
  "query": "example search"
}

Demo Mode (Enabled by Default)

This actor uses a free public API and defaults to demoMode: true.

Since this actor wraps a free, publicly available API, demo mode is enabled by default. This allows you to:

• Test the actor without any configuration
• See real sample data from the actual API
• Verify the output format before integrating

To get customized results, simply provide your own input parameters.

Input Parameters

Parameter	Type	Required	Description
See input schema

Output Format

{
  "data": [...]
}

Pricing

This actor uses pay-per-event billing:

• Search Articles: $0.01
• Get Article: $0.01
• Get Citations: $0.01
• Author Search: $0.01
• Journal Search: $0.01
• Get Abstracts: $0.01
• MeSH Search: $0.01
• Related Articles: $0.01

Use Cases

• Literature reviews and meta-analysis
• Competitive intelligence for pharma
• Track KOL (Key Opinion Leader) publications
• Monitor disease area research
• Patent prior art searches
• Academic citation analysis
• Drug development research
• Sync to research databases

API Reference

See official API documentation for details.

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Common Problems & Solutions

"Invalid API key" error

Cause: Your API key is wrong, expired, or doesn't have the right permissions. Fix: Double-check your API key. Make sure you copied it exactly without extra spaces.

"Rate limit exceeded" error

Cause: You've hit the API's rate limits. Fix: Wait a few minutes, then try again. Consider reducing the number of concurrent requests.

Empty or incomplete results

Cause: The target may have anti-scraping protection or the data doesn't exist. Fix:

• Check if the URL/search query is correct
• Try with different parameters
• Some sites may block automated access

Demo data showing instead of real results

Cause: demoMode is still set to true. Fix: Set demoMode: false and provide your API key(s).

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