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 ( ' citedB