PubMed API — biomedical literature search (no key)
Pricing
from $2.00 / 1,000 pubmed queries
Search 37M+ PubMed biomedical citations by keywords, author and year, and fetch a full article by PMID (title, authors, journal, DOI, abstract). Official NCBI E-utilities data. Clean HTTP API + MCP, no key. Pay per query.
You can access the PubMed API — biomedical literature search (no key) 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.
$echo '{< "term": "crispr gene editing"<}' |<apify call synthetic.ia/pubmed-api --silent --output-datasetThe Apify CLI is the official tool that allows you to use PubMed API — biomedical literature search (no key) locally, providing convenience functions and automatic retries on errors.
Using installation script (macOS/Linux):
$curl -fsSL https://apify.com/install-cli.sh | bashUsing installation script (Windows):
$irm https://apify.com/install-cli.ps1 | iexUsing Homebrew:
$brew install apify-cliUsing npm:
$npm install -g apify-cliOther API clients include: