PubMed Scraper - Articles, Abstracts, Authors & MeSH
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For literature reviews, RAG pipelines and LLM training sets: PubMed articles with the full abstract, authors with affiliations and ORCID, DOI, PMC ID and MeSH terms. Goes past PubMed's 9,999-result cap by slicing dates, so a 70,772-hit search comes back whole. Export as JSON, CSV or Excel.
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