PubMed Research Scraper - Papers, Abstracts & Authors

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Search PubMed literature — titles, authors, abstracts, journals, and publication dates from the NIH index.

What you get

Search PubMed literature — titles, authors, abstracts, journals, and publication dates from the NIH index.

Why use this PubMed Research scraper

• Full citation metadata — title, authors, abstract, journal, date, and PubMed links.
• NIH's public index — stable, free, no key required.
• Biomedical coverage — the canonical literature source for life sciences.

Scrape PubMed Research data in minutes

{
  "queries": [
    "covid-19 vaccine"
  ]
}

{
  "queries": [
    "CRISPR gene editing"
  ]
}

Input parameters

Parameter	Required	Description
queries	Yes	PubMed search expressions. NCBI field tags such as [Title], [Author], and [MeSH Terms] are supported. Default: ['artificial intelligence in medicine'].
publicationFrom	No	Optional start date in YYYY-MM-DD format. Applied to PubMed publication dates.
publicationTo	No	Optional end date in YYYY-MM-DD format. Applied to PubMed publication dates.
sort	No	Order returned by the official PubMed search endpoint. One of: pub date, relevance, first author, journal name. Default: pub date.
maxResultsPerQuery	No	Stop after this many unique PubMed articles for each query. Default: 100.

Output fields

• pmid
• doi
• pmc_id
• title
• abstract
• authors
• affiliations
• journal
• journal_abbreviation
• issn
• publication_date
• volume
• issue
• pages
• language
• publication_types
• mesh_terms
• keywords
• pubmed_url
• query
• source
• email
• tool

Example result

{
  "pmid": "42641684",
  "doi": "10.1016/j.annonc.2026.07.001",
  "pmc_id": null,
  "title": "Thymic Radiation is Associated with Worse Outcomes in Patients with NSCLC.",
  "abstract": "BACKGROUND: Emerging evidence indicates the functional importance of the thymus in adult health and may influence oncolo…",
  "authors": [
    "V Prudente",
    "S Bernatz",
    "S Pai",
    "…"
  ],
  "affiliations": [
    "Artificial Intelligence in Medicine (AIM) Program, Mass General Brigham, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA; Department of Radiation Oncology, Mass General Brigham Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA; Radiology and Nuclear Medicine, CARIM & GROW, Maastricht University, Maastricht, Netherlands.",
    "Department of Radiation Oncology, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, CA, USA; Department of Cardiology, Cedars-Sinai Medical Center, Los Angeles, California, USA.",
    "Lowe Center for Thoracic Oncology, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, MA, USA.",
    "…"
  ],
  "journal": "Annals of oncology : official journal of the European Society for Medical Oncology",
  "journal_abbreviation": "Ann Oncol",
  "issn": "1569-8041",
  "publication_date": "2026-12-31",
  "volume": null,
  "issue": null,
  "pages": null,
  "language": "eng",
  "publication_types": [
    "Journal Article"
  ],
  "mesh_terms": [],
  "keywords": [
    "Artificial Intelligence",
    "Organ of Interest",
    "Radiation Oncology",
    "Radiotherapy",
    "Thymic Health",
    "| Thymus"
  ],
  "pubmed_url": "https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42641684/",
  "query": "artificial intelligence in medicine",
  "source": "PubMed"
}

Common use cases

• Monitor new papers in a therapeutic area
• Build systematic-review datasets
• Feed evidence-mining pipelines
• Track lab and author output

Compared to alternatives

• vs other PubMed Research scrapers on the Store — pay-per-result billing means empty or failed searches cost nothing; you are not charged for a run that returns zero rows.
• vs building your own — no proxy management, markup-change maintenance, or infrastructure to run; paste inputs and consume the dataset.

Limitations

• Abstracts included; full text lives at the publisher, not in the dataset.
• PubMed indexing lags publication by days for some journals.
• mesh_terms and doi are sometimes empty when PubMed has not yet indexed them for an article.
• Bound large queries with maxResultsPerQuery to stay within API limits.

FAQ

Do I need an account or cookies?

No — the Actor reads public data only. There is no login to configure and no account to risk.

What happens when a search returns nothing?

The run completes with zero (or an explicit error) rows. Per-result billing means you are not charged for empty output.

Can I run it on a schedule?

Yes — attach an Apify schedule or use the saved tasks to re-run the same inputs daily or weekly.

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Last verified: 2026-09

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