You can access the PubMed Search Scraper programmatically from your own applications by using the Apify API. You can also choose the language preference from below. To use the Apify API, you’ll need an Apify account and your API token, found in API & Integrations in Apify Console.

Python

JavaScript

CLI

OpenAPI

HTTP

MCP

1import { ApifyClient } from 'apify-client';
2
3// Initialize the ApifyClient with your Apify API token
4// Replace the '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>' with your token
5const client = new ApifyClient({
6    token: '<YOUR_API_TOKEN>',
7});
8
9// Prepare Actor input
10const input = {
11    "query": "cancer immunotherapy",
12    "maxItems": 10,
13    "sort": "relevance",
14    "includeAbstracts": true,
15    "dateRange": "any"
16};
17
18// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
19const run = await client.actor("fetch_cat/pubmed-search-scraper").call(input);
20
21// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
22console.log('Results from dataset');
23console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
24const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
25items.forEach((item) => {
26    console.dir(item);
27});
28
29// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

PubMed Search Scraper — Export Article Metadata API in JavaScript

The Apify API client for JavaScript is the official library that allows you to use PubMed Search Scraper API in JavaScript or TypeScript, providing convenience functions and automatic retries on errors.

Install the apify-client

$npm install apify-client

Other API clients include:

PubMed Search Scraper API in Python

PubMed Search Scraper API through CLI

PubMed Search Scraper OpenAPI definition

PubMed Search Scraper API

PubMed Articles Scraper

neuton/pubmed-articles-scraper

Search PubMed articles by query or PMID and export titles, abstracts, journals, publication dates, authors, DOI, MeSH terms, publication types, and PubMed URLs using NCBI E-utilities.

Neuton Scripts

PubMed Scraper — Abstracts, Authors & MeSH Terms

logiover/pubmed-scraper

Scrape PubMed by keyword query or direct PMIDs. Extract title, abstract, authors, journal, DOI, MeSH terms, keywords, and publication date via NCBI E-utilities. No API key required.

Logiover

PubMed Research Scraper - Papers, Abstracts & Authors

thirdwatch/pubmed-research-scraper

Search PubMed through the official NCBI E-utilities API. Export PMIDs, DOIs, titles, abstracts, authors, affiliations, journals, publication types, MeSH terms, and dates.

Thirdwatch

Pubmed Search Scraper

smorgi_apps/pubmed-search-scraper

Search PubMed biomedical literature via the official NCBI E-utilities API: titles, authors, journals, abstracts, DOIs, MeSH terms. Pay per article (~$0.50/1k), empty runs free.

Smorgi Apps

PubMed Article Metadata Scraper

parseforge/pubmed-article-metadata-scraper

ParseForge

PubMed Articles Scraper

automation-lab/pubmed-article-search-scraper

Search PubMed and export normalized article metadata and abstracts for literature reviews and research monitoring.

Automation Lab

PubMed Scraper

lulzasaur/pubmed-scraper

Search and scrape PubMed biomedical literature via NCBI E-utilities. Get titles, authors, abstracts, journals, MeSH terms, DOIs. Search by keyword or fetch by PMID.

lulz bot

PubMed Scraper - Citations, Abstracts and MeSH

s-r/pubmed-scraper

Search PubMed or pull citations by PMID. Returns title, journal, authors, DOI, PMC id, publication types, citation counts and, where published, the abstract, MeSH terms and keywords.

PubMed Scraper — Papers, DOI & MeSH to JSON

devilscrapes/pubmed-papers-scraper

Search PubMed by query and export structured paper rows — title, authors, abstract, journal, DOI, PMID, MeSH terms, publication date — to JSON or CSV. A clean PubMed API wrapper that handles NCBI pagination, rate limits, and retries for research and ML pipelines.

DevilScrapes

Pubmed Data Extractor

kawsar/pubmed-data-extractor

PubMed Data Extractor scrapes PubMed search results by keyword, so you get titles, authors, journals, DOIs, and abstracts as clean, exportable data in seconds.