PubMed Search Scraper - Articles, Abstracts and MeSH

Use it as a PubMed search scraper: export articles, abstracts and MeSH terms for literature reviews, systematic-review screening and AI agents.

PubMed Scraper searches PubMed with the same query syntax as pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov and exports each article with its abstract, authors, journal, publication year, DOI, PMID, PMCID and MeSH terms. Use it for literature reviews, systematic review screening, biomedical research datasets and RAG over medical literature.

Why this Actor

• Official source. It uses NCBI's E-utilities API, with no HTML scraping and no blocking.
• Respects NCBI limits. It sends up to 3 requests per second, or 10 if you add your own free NCBI API key.
• Rich fields. It includes structured abstracts, MeSH headings, DOI and PMC IDs.
• Use cases: literature reviews, systematic-review screening, pharma/biotech monitoring, RAG over medical literature, and bibliometrics.

Example run

Real input and the first output record from run jQ5fRdSWk0cVCnrEZ on 2026-10-30. Long text fields are shortened here with "...".

Input:

{
  "query": "crispr[tiab] AND 2025[dp]",
  "maxResults": 50,
  "sort": "relevance"
}

Output (first record):

{
  "pmid": 40411467,
  "title": "CRISPR Digital Sensing: From Micronano-Collaborative Chip to Biomolecular Detection.",
  "abstract": "The Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats (CRISPR) sensing technology proved to be valuable during the COVID-19 pandemic through its sensitivity, specificity, robustness, and versatility. However, issues such as overreli...",
  "authors": [
    "Xinyi Wang",
    "Longjie Zhong",
    "Wenbin Zhang",
    "Pengde Wu",
    "Minghao Wang",
    "Dujuan Li",
    "..."
  ],
  "journal": "ACS nano",
  "year": 2025,
  "doi": "10.1021/acsnano.5c03474",
  "pmcid": null,
  "meshTerms": [
    "Humans",
    "COVID-19",
    "CRISPR-Cas Systems",
    "SARS-CoV-2",
    "Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats",
    "Biosensing Techniques",
    "..."
  ],
  "url": "https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/40411467/"
}

Input

Field	Description
query	PubMed query, e.g. crispr[tiab] AND 2025[dp]
maxResults	1–10,000
sort	relevance or pub_date
ncbiApiKey	Optional, your own NCBI key (stored as secret)
contactEmail	Optional, sent to NCBI as recommended

Output (one item per article)

{"pmid":"41468306","title":"...","abstract":"BACKGROUND: ...","authors":["Yiwen Wang"],"journal":"Epigenetics","year":2026,"doi":"10.1080/...","pmcid":"PMC12758201","meshTerms":["Humans"],"url":"https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41468306/"}

Notes

PubMed data comes from the U.S. National Library of Medicine. Abstracts may be subject to publisher copyright; check NLM's terms for your use. This Actor is not affiliated with NCBI/NLM.

Pricing

Pay-per-event: a small start fee plus a fee per article returned.