pubmed-search

When to Use

• User asks to find papers on a topic
• User wants recent publications in a field
• User asks for references or citations
• User wants to know the state of research on a topic

Fetch details

handle = Entrez.efetch(db="pubmed", id=id_list, rettype="xml") records = Entrez.read(handle) handle.close()

for article in records['PubmedArticle']: medline = article['MedlineCitation'] pmid = str(medline['PMID']) title = medline['Article']['ArticleTitle']

# Get authors
authors = medline['Article'].get('AuthorList', [])
first_author = f"{authors[0].get('LastName', '')} {authors[0].get('Initials', '')}" if authors else "Unknown"

# Get journal and year
journal = medline['Article']['Journal']['Title']
pub_date = medline['Article']['Journal']['JournalIssue'].get('PubDate', {})
year = pub_date.get('Year', 'N/A')

# Get abstract
abstract_parts = medline['Article'].get('Abstract', {}).get('AbstractText', [])
abstract = ' '.join(str(a) for a in abstract_parts)[:300]

print(f"PMID: {pmid}")
print(f"Title: {title}")
print(f"Authors: {first_author} et al.")
print(f"Journal: {journal} ({year})")
print(f"Abstract: {abstract}...")
print(f"Link: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/{pmid}/")
print()

## 5. Advanced searches

Support these query patterns:
- `"CRISPR"[Title] AND "delivery"[Title]` — title-specific
- `"2026"[Date - Publication]` — date filter
- `"Nature"[Journal]` — journal filter
- `review[Publication Type]` — type filter