PubMed Article Metadata Scraper

🔬 PubMed Article Metadata Scraper

🚀 Search PubMed and export clean, structured article metadata in seconds.

This Actor runs any PubMed query and returns structured metadata for each matching article, straight from the official NCBI E-utilities API. No login, no API key, no HTML scraping.

PubMed indexes more than 36 million biomedical citations. This scraper turns any search into a tidy dataset you can filter, cite, and analyse.

For	Use it to
Researchers & clinicians	Build reference lists, track a topic, screen literature
Bibliometrics & data teams	Analyse authorship, journals, and publication trends
Developers	Enrich records with PMIDs, DOIs, and PMCIDs

📋 What it does

• Runs any PubMed query (same syntax as the PubMed website, including field tags and MeSH terms).
• Returns one row per article with authors, journal, dates, identifiers, and more.
• Paginates automatically up to your maxItems, respecting NCBI request limits.

💡 Why it matters: it reads the same E-utilities API the NIH exposes for programmatic access, so results are complete and stable, not screen-scraped.

📊 Output

Field	Description
🆔 pmid	PubMed identifier
🔗 url	PubMed article URL
📕 title	Article title
👥 authors	All author names
✍️ firstAuthor / lastAuthor	First and last authors
📰 journal / journalAbbrev	Journal name and abbreviation
📅 pubDate	Publication date
🔢 volume / issue / pages	Citation details
🔗 doi	Digital Object Identifier
📄 pmcid	PubMed Central id (if available)
#️⃣ issn	Journal ISSN
🏷️ publicationTypes	Article types (e.g. Review, Clinical Trial)
🕓 scrapedAt	When this row was collected

Sample record:

{
  "pmid": "42633444",
  "url": "https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42633444/",
  "title": "Increased Junctional Zone Stiffness in Adenomyosis-Associated Infertility",
  "authors": ["Wang X", "Deng S", "Pan X"],
  "journal": "International journal of women's health",
  "pubDate": "2026",
  "doi": "10.2147/IJWH.S616756",
  "pmcid": "PMC13499567"
}

🚀 How to use

1. Create a free account w/ $5 credit.
2. Open the Actor, set a query and maxItems.
3. Run it and download the dataset as JSON, CSV, Excel, or XML.

❓ FAQ

Do I need an API key? No. The Actor uses the public NCBI E-utilities API.

What query syntax is supported? Exactly what pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov accepts, including field tags like [au], [dp], and MeSH terms.

How many articles can I get? As many as your query matches, up to maxItems. Large runs are paginated automatically.

How fresh is the data? Every run queries PubMed live.

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This Actor is not affiliated with the NIH, NLM, or NCBI. It reads publicly available data from the NCBI E-utilities API for research and analysis. Follow NCBI's usage guidelines.