You can access the PubMed Search — Fast NCBI API 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    "queries": [
12        "cancer immunotherapy"
13    ],
14    "sort": "relevance",
15    "maxResultsPerQuery": 25,
16    "maxRows": 25
17};
18
19// Run the Actor and wait for it to finish
20const run = await client.actor("quartz_apple_dnx/pubmed-search-fast-ncbi-api").call(input);
21
22// Fetch and print Actor results from the run's dataset (if any)
23console.log('Results from dataset');
24console.log(`💾 Check your data here: https://console.apify.com/storage/datasets/${run.defaultDatasetId}`);
25const { items } = await client.dataset(run.defaultDatasetId).listItems();
26items.forEach((item) => {
27    console.dir(item);
28});
29
30// 📚 Want to learn more 📖? Go to → https://docs.apify.com/api/client/js/docs

PubMed Search API — Abstracts + MeSH $0.25/1K API in JavaScript

The Apify API client for JavaScript is the official library that allows you to use PubMed Search — Fast NCBI API 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 — Fast NCBI API API in Python

PubMed Search — Fast NCBI API API through CLI

PubMed Search — Fast NCBI API OpenAPI definition

PubMed Search — Fast NCBI API API

PubMed & NCBI Databases API

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DevilScrapes

PubMed Scraper - Biomedical Articles & Metadata

scrapesage/pubmed-scraper

Scrape PubMed biomedical articles by search query or PMID from the NCBI E-utilities API: title, journal, authors, date, DOI, volume/issue/pages, ISSN and publication types. No key, no browser. Independent tool, not affiliated with any government agency.

Scrape Sage

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 Biomedical Article Search

fit_melon/pubmed-biomedical-article-search

Search PubMed's 35M+ biomedical citations by keyword: title, authors, journal, year, DOI, PMID and abstract for each match. Official NCBI E-utilities API. Free — you only pay Apify usage.

D N

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.

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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.