pubmed-api

PubMed API wrapper

PubMed API wrapper JS.

Feel free to contribute.

Install

yarn add pubmed-api

or

npm install --save pubmed-api

then import the package in your app :

import PubmedApi from 'pubmed-api';

or

const PubmedApi = require('pubmed-api');

By default PubmedApi is set to :
retMode = json
apiKey = undefined

const pubMedApi = new PubmedApi();

You can override this settings in the constructor :

const pubMedApi = new PubmedApi("xml");
const pubMedApi = new PubmedApi("xml", "myApiKey");

Available commands

eInfo

Explanations here : https://dataguide.nlm.nih.gov/eutilities/utilities.html#einfo

async function getDbList() {
    try {
        const results = await pubMedApi.eInfo.getDbList();
        console.log(results);
    } catch (error) {
        console.log(error);
    }
}

async function getDbInfo() {
    try {
        const results = await pubMedApi.eInfo.getDbInfo('pubmed');
        console.log(results);
    } catch (error) {
        console.log(error);
    }
}

eSearch

Explanations here : https://dataguide.nlm.nih.gov/eutilities/utilities.html#esearch

async function getSearch() {
    try {
        const results = await pubMedApi.eSearch.search('pubmed', 'green');
        console.log(results);
    } catch (error) {
        console.log(error);
    }
}

async function getSearchWithOptions() {
    const options = {
        minDate: '2021/01/01',
        maxDate: '2021/02/02',
        retStart: '500',
        retMax: '1000',
        retType: '',
        dateType: 'edat',
        relDate: '',
        useHistory: true,
    };
    try {
        const results = await pubMedApi.eSearch.search('pubmed', 'green', options);
        console.log(results);
    } catch (error) {
        console.log(error);
    }
}

eSpell

Explanations here : https://dataguide.nlm.nih.gov/eutilities/utilities.html#espell

async function getSpell() {
    try {
        const results = await pubMedApi.eSpell.search('pubmed', 'green');
        console.log(results);
    } catch (error) {
        console.log(error);
    }
}

eSummary

Explanations here : https://dataguide.nlm.nih.gov/eutilities/utilities.html#esummary

async function eSummarySearch() {
    try {
        const results = await pubMedApi.eSummary.search(
            'pubmed',
            '11200,11201,11202',
        );
        console.log(results);
    } catch (error) {
        console.log(error);
    }
}

async function eSummarySearchWithOptions() {
    const options = {
        retStart: '100',
        retMax: '100',
        version: '2',
    };
    try {
        const results = await pubMedApi.eSearch.search('pubmed', 'green', options);
        console.log(results);
    } catch (error) {
        console.log(error);
    }
}

eCitMatch

Explanations here : https://dataguide.nlm.nih.gov/eutilities/utilities.html#ecitmatch

// bdata = journal_title|year|volume|first_page|author_name|your_key|

async function eCitMatch() {
    try {
        const results = await pubMedApi.eCitMatch.match(
        'pubmed',
        'proc+natl+acad+sci+u+s+a|1991|88|3248|mann+bj|Art1|%0Dscience|1987|235|182|palmenberg+ac|Art2|',
        );
        console.log(results);
    } catch (error) {
        console.log(error);
    }
}