PubMed Scraper — Articles, Abstracts, Authors & Emails

Search PubMed with the full PubMed syntax, a publication date range and publication types (reviews, clinical trials, meta-analyses...), or fetch articles by PMID. For each article: title, full abstract, journal, volume, pages, publication and electronic dates, DOI, PMC link, authors with affiliations, ORCID and the emails that appear in the affiliations, keywords, MeSH terms and publication types. Uses the official NCBI E-utilities API.

Built for literature reviews and research, pharma and medtech market intelligence, KOL (key opinion leader) and researcher outreach, and AI / RAG datasets.

Why this one

• Author emails and affiliations pulled from each article: find corresponding authors for outreach.
• Full PubMed query syntax and date / type filters.
• Official API: stable and fast (hundreds of articles in seconds). Add your free NCBI key for even faster runs.

Input

Recent reviews on semaglutide and obesity, only with an author email:

{
  "searchQueries": ["semaglutide obesity"],
  "publicationTypes": ["Review"],
  "dateFrom": "2025-01-01",
  "sortBy": "date",
  "onlyWithAuthorEmail": true,
  "maxArticlesPerSearch": 500
}

Output

Field	Description
pmid, title, abstract, url, pmcUrl	article
journal, journalAbbreviation, volume, issue, pages	publication
publicationDate, electronicDate, doi, pmcId, language, publicationTypes	metadata
authors[]	name, affiliations, emails, orcid
authorEmails, firstAuthor, lastAuthor	quick access
keywords, meshTerms	topics

Example output

One real item from a test run (long texts and lists shortened):

{
  "type": "article",
  "pmid": "39762910",
  "title": "Medical therapy to treat obesity and optimize fertility in women of reproductive age: a narrative review.",
  "abstract": "BACKGROUND: Overweight and obesity-chronic illnesses in which an increase in body fat promotes adipose tissue dysfunction and abnormal fat mass resulting in ...",
  "journal": "Reproductive biology and endocrinology : RB&E",
  "journalAbbreviation": "Reprod Biol Endocrinol",
  "volume": "23",
  "issue": "1",
  "pages": "2",
  "publicationDate": "2025-01-06",
  "electronicDate": "2025-01-06",
  "doi": "10.1186/s12958-024-01339-y",
  "pmcId": "PMC11702155",
  "language": "eng",
  "publicationTypes": [
    "Journal Article",
    "Review"
  ],
  "keywords": [
    "GLP1-RAs",
    "Infertility",
    "Obesity"
  ],
  "meshTerms": [
    "Humans",
    "Female",
    "Obesity"
  ],
  "authors": [
    {
      "name": "Janelle Duah",
      "affiliations": [
        "Departments of Internal Medicine and Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences, Yale School of Medicine, 330 Cedar St, New Haven, CT, 06510, USA. Jane..."
      ],
      "emails": [
        "janelle.duah@yale.edu"
      ],
      "orcid": null
    },
    {
      "name": "David B Seifer",
      "affiliations": [
        "Departments of Internal Medicine and Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproductive Sciences, Yale School of Medicine, 330 Cedar St, New Haven, CT, 06510, USA."
      ],
      "emails": [],
      "orcid": null
    }
  ],
  "authorEmails": [
    "janelle.duah@yale.edu"
  ],
  "firstAuthor": "Janelle Duah",
  "lastAuthor": "David B Seifer",
  "url": "https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39762910/",
  "pmcUrl": "https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11702155/",
  "search": "semaglutide obesity"
}

Notes

• PubMed returns up to 10,000 articles per search; split by date range for more.
• Emails appear only when the journal includes them in the affiliation (usually the corresponding author).

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What you get	Price	Example
Article	$0.0008 each	1,000 articles = $0.80

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