Europe PMC
Scholarly No key
AuthenticationNo key
Rate limit10 requests per second; include your email in requests for better service on heavy use.
Documentation: europepmc.org ยท Checked Sep 13, 2026
About
Europe PMC is a free archive of biomedical and life-science research, run by the European Bioinformatics Institute. Its API lets you search tens of millions of papers by keyword, get abstracts, citation counts, references, and open-access full text. No key is needed, and it also covers grants and text-mined biology annotations.
Details
No key needed. You can call it right away.
Auth: No key
Rate limit: 10 requests per second; include your email in requests for better service on heavy use.
Verified: 2026-09-13
Best for: personal developer
Setup
- Paste the example URL into your browser to see search results instantly, no signup needed.
- Change the query text to any topic, author, or journal you want.
- Set resultType=core for rich metadata or use the fullTextXML endpoint for open-access text.
- Keep requests at or under 10 per second.
Example
https://www.ebi.ac.uk/europepmc/webservices/rest/search?query=diabetes&resultType=core&format=json&pageSize=10Use cases
- Search biomedical papers on a topic like diabetes and read the abstracts
- Track how many times a paper has been cited and by whom
- Build a research dashboard that pulls the newest open-access full-text articles