PMC Harvest

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

Features

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

Usage

# Search a journal
node {baseDir}/scripts/pmc-harvest.js --search "J Stroke[journal]" --year 2025