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PMC Harvest

Fetch and retrieve full-text or abstracts of open-access articles from PubMed Central by journal, year, or PMCID using NCBI's public APIs without an API key.

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Fetch and retrieve full-text or abstracts of open-access articles from PubMed Central by journal, year, or PMCID using NCBI's public APIs without an API key.

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Requirements

Target platform
OpenClaw
Install method
Manual import
Extraction
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Prerequisites
OpenClaw
Primary doc
SKILL.md

Package facts

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Package format
ZIP package
Source platform
Tencent SkillHub
What's included
SKILL.md, lib/api.js, scripts/pmc-harvest.js

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Release facts

Source
Tencent SkillHub
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Indexed source record
Version
1.0.0

Documentation

ClawHub primary doc Primary doc: SKILL.md 8 sections Open source page

PMC Harvest

Fetch full-text articles from PubMed Central using official NCBI APIs.

Features

E-utilities search โ€” Find articles by journal, year, query OAI-PMH full text โ€” Retrieve complete article XML (open access only) Batch harvesting โ€” Process multiple journals at once Abstract fetch โ€” Lightweight retrieval for review queues No API key required โ€” Uses public NCBI APIs (rate-limited)

Usage

# Search a journal node {baseDir}/scripts/pmc-harvest.js --search "J Stroke[journal]" --year 2025 # Fetch full text for a specific article node {baseDir}/scripts/pmc-harvest.js --fetch PMC12345678 # Batch harvest from multiple journals node {baseDir}/scripts/pmc-harvest.js --harvest journals.json --year 2025 # Test with known journals node {baseDir}/scripts/pmc-harvest.js --test

Options

FlagDescription--search <query>PMC search query (use journal[name] format)--year <year>Filter by publication year--max <n>Max results (default: 100)--fetch <pmcid>Fetch full text for specific PMCID--harvest <file>Batch harvest from JSON journal list--testRun test with sample journals

Programmatic API

const pmc = require('{baseDir}/lib/api.js'); // Search const { count, pmcids } = await pmc.searchJournal('"J Stroke"[journal]', { year: 2025 }); // Get summaries const summaries = await pmc.getSummaries(pmcids); // Fetch full text const { available, xml, reason } = await pmc.fetchFullText('PMC12345678'); // Parse JATS XML const { title, abstract, body } = pmc.parseJATS(xml); // Fetch abstract only (lightweight) const { title, abstract } = await pmc.fetchAbstract('PMC12345678');

Journal Query Examples

const queries = { 'Stroke': '"Stroke"[journal]', 'Journal of Stroke': '"J Stroke"[journal]', 'Stroke & Vascular Neurology': '"Stroke Vasc Neurol"[journal]', 'European Stroke Journal': '"Eur Stroke J"[journal]', 'BMC Neurology': '"BMC Neurol"[journal]' };

Limitations

OAI-PMH only returns open-access articles โ€” restricted content unavailable Rate limits โ€” ~3 requests/second without API key Peak hours โ€” NCBI recommends avoiding 5AM-9PM ET for large batches

API Reference

This skill wraps NCBI's official APIs: E-utilities: https://eutils.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/eutils esearch.fcgi โ€” Search PMC esummary.fcgi โ€” Get article metadata OAI-PMH: https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/api/oai/v1/mh GetRecord โ€” Fetch full text XML Full docs: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK25501/

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Package contents

Included in package
2 Scripts1 Docs
  • SKILL.md Primary doc
  • lib/api.js Scripts
  • scripts/pmc-harvest.js Scripts