$ man pubmed-search
/pubmed-search(1)
PRICE / CALL
$0.01
USDC · base mainnet · scheme: exact
METHOD
POST
CLUSTER
webprobeCATEGORY
uncategorized
STATUS
● live
NAME
pubmed-search — pubmed biomedical literature search
SYNOPSIS
POST https://x402.org/v1/pubmed-search
Content-Type: application/json
X-PAYMENT: <signed-transferWithAuthorization>
{ ... }↳ first call →
402 Payment Required. Sign USDCtransferWithAuthorization, retry with theX-PAYMENT header.DESCRIPTION
PubMed biomedical literature search. NIH E-utilities. Returns PMID, title, abstract, authors, journal, MeSH terms, DOI. Federal public.
INPUT — request schema
| property | type | description | req? |
|---|---|---|---|
| query | string | PubMed query string. Supports field tags ('cancer[Title]', 'Smith J[Author]'), boolean operators, and MeSH terms. | required |
| limit | number | Max papers to return. 1-50. Default 10. | optional |
| date_from | string | Lower bound on publication date (YYYY/MM/DD or YYYY-MM-DD). | optional |
| date_to | string | Upper bound on publication date (YYYY/MM/DD or YYYY-MM-DD). | optional |
| sort | string | Result ordering. Default 'relevance'. enum: relevance · pub_date · first_author | optional |
| include_abstract | boolean | If true (default), include the abstract text per paper. Set false for a smaller, faster response. | optional |
OUTPUT — response shape
| field | type | description |
|---|---|---|
| total | string | Total number of PubMed records matching the query, as reported by NIH E-utilities (string-encoded integer). |
| returned | string | Count of PMID results actually included in this response payload (string-encoded integer). |
EXAMPLES — two ways to call
EXAMPLE 1 · curl
curl -X POST https://x402.org/v1/pubmed-search \
-H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
-d '{ }'first response =
402 Payment Required with payment requirements; sign + retry with X-PAYMENT.EXAMPLE 2 · mcp
# install once claude mcp add x402 --command "npx x402-deployer-mcp" # then ask Claude Code: # "use the pubmed-search tool to ..."
MCP server handles payment automatically — your coding agent just calls the tool by name.
METADATA
- tags
- web-probebiomedical-searchpubmedliterature-searchresearch-papersmedical-researchncbipmid-lookup
- methods
- POST
- cluster
- webprobe
- price
- $0.01 USDC per call
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