Europe PMC Has a Free API — Search 40M+ Biomedical Papers With Full Text

PubMed is great, but it only gives you abstracts. What if you need the full text? Europe PMC has 40M+ biomedical papers and 8M+ full-text articles available through a free API. No key required. What Is Europe PMC? Europe PMC is the European mirror of PubMed Central, but better: 40M+ articles (more than PubMed's 36M) 8M+ full-text papers (not just abstracts) Preprints from bioRxiv and medRxiv included No API key needed No rate limits for reasonable use Quick Start import requests # Search for papers response = requests.get("https://www.ebi.ac.uk/europepmc/webservices/rest/search", params={ "query": "CRISPR gene therapy clinical trials", "resultType": "core", "pageSize": 5, "format": "json" }) for paper in response.json()["resultList"]["result"]: print(f"[{paper.get('pubYear', 'N/A')}] {paper['title']}") print(f" Journal: {paper.get('journalTitle', 'N/A')}") print(f" Cited by: {paper.get('citedByCount', 0)}") print(f" Full text: {'Yes' if paper.get('isOpenAccess') == 'Y' else 'No'}") pri