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PubMed Scraper

Extract biomedical literature, abstracts, MeSH terms, and citation data from PubMed National Library of Medicine database.

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curl -X POST https://api.spider.cloud/scrape \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"url": "https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/", "return_format": "markdown"}'

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Content
103 lines 3.9 KB markdown
Render
No browser plain request is enough
Fetch time
195 ms one measured fetch
This fetch cost
$0.000076 bandwidth plus compute
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# Home Page
PubMed® comprises more than 40 million citations for biomedical literature from MEDLINE, life science journals, and online books. Citations may include links to full text content from PubMed Central and publisher web sites.
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That was one page. A key runs the same call across every URL on pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov, with browser rendering, proxies, and concurrency. Sign up and a free balance lands on your account. No card required to test.

  • Free balance on signup, no card
  • Failed requests cost $0
  • robots.txt respected by default

The same call, in code.

The keyless call above returns markdown. These examples add a key, so you get browser rendering, proxies, and concurrency on pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov.

pubmed-scraper.ts
import { SpiderBrowser } from "spider-browser";

const spider = new SpiderBrowser({
  apiKey: process.env.SPIDER_API_KEY!,
});

await spider.connect();
const page = spider.page!;
await page.goto("https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/?term=CRISPR+gene+editing");

// No selectors, no schema. Spider reads the page and names the fields.
const data = await page.scrape();

console.log(data);
await spider.close();
ready to run · spider-browser, no selectors

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Fields you can pull.

Article titleAuthorsAbstractJournalPMIDDOIMeSH termsPublication date

Spider names these from the page. The capture above came back as markdown; the same call with return_format: "json" returns them as keys.

What pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov costs to scrape.

The capture above cost $0.000076 to fetch. Pricing is $1 per GB of pre-transformation bandwidth plus $0.001 per CPU minute, so a page like this one lands at a fraction of a cent. Failed requests are billed at $0.

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  • No card required to test
  • Balance never expires
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