Name: pubmed-search
Price: 0.01 USDC
Availability: InStock

$ man pubmed-search

agentutility / web-probe / pubmed-search

PRICE / CALL

$0.01

USDC · base mainnet · scheme: exact

METHOD

POST

CLUSTER

webprobe

CATEGORY

uncategorized

STATUS

● live

NAME

pubmed-search — searches pubmed for biomedical literature by free-text query, with optional date range and sort (relevance / pub_date / first_author)

SYNOPSIS

POST https://x402.agentutility.ai/pubmed-search
     Content-Type: application/json
     X-PAYMENT:    <signed-transferWithAuthorization>

     { ... }

↳ first call → 402 Payment Required. Sign USDCtransferWithAuthorization, retry with theX-PAYMENT header.

DESCRIPTION

Searches PubMed for biomedical literature by free-text query, with optional date range and sort (relevance / pub_date / first_author). Returns total hit count plus PMID, title, authors, journal, publication date, abstract, MeSH terms, and DOI per paper. Federal public-domain data via NCBI. Use it as a medical journal lookup, NIH paper search, clinical-research finder, MeSH-term query, or NCBI E-utilities wrapper.

INPUT — request schema

property	type	description	req?
query	string	PubMed query string. Supports field tags ('cancer[Title]', 'Smith J[Author]'), boolean operators, and MeSH terms.	required
limit	number	Max papers to return. 1-50. Default 10.	optional
date_from	string	Lower bound on publication date (YYYY/MM/DD or YYYY-MM-DD).	optional
date_to	string	Upper bound on publication date (YYYY/MM/DD or YYYY-MM-DD).	optional
sort	string	Result ordering. Default 'relevance'. enum: relevance · pub_date · first_author	optional
include_abstract	boolean	If true (default), include the abstract text per paper. Set false for a smaller, faster response.	optional

OUTPUT — response shape

field	type	description
total	string	Total number of PubMed records matching the query, as reported by NIH E-utilities (string-encoded integer).
returned	string	Count of PMID results actually included in this response payload (string-encoded integer).

EXAMPLES — two ways to call

EXAMPLE 1 · curl

curl -X POST https://x402.agentutility.ai/pubmed-search \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{ }'

first response = 402 Payment Required with payment requirements; sign + retry with X-PAYMENT.

EXAMPLE 2 · mcp

# Install the MCP package for this endpoint's cluster
npx -y @agentutility/mcp-<cluster>

# Required: EVM private key with USDC on Base
export X402_PRIVATE_KEY=0x...

# Then call the pubmed-search tool from your MCP-aware agent.

MCP server handles payment automatically — your coding agent just calls the tool by name.

METADATA

tags: web-probebiomedical-searchpubmedliterature-searchresearch-papersmedical-researchncbipmid-lookup
methods: POST
cluster: webprobe
price: $0.01 USDC per call

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lead-enrich	Enriches a lead from an email, name, domain, or company into a normalized public-data person record.	$0.01
people	Looks up a person from an email, name, domain, or company and returns a normalized public-data record (alias of people-enrich).	$0.01
people-enrich	Enriches a person record from an email, name, domain, or company using public data only.	$0.01