sciencescraper.pmc.pmc_search#
Functions for searching for articles on PubMed Central.
Module Contents#
Functions#
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Searches PMC for articles given a query |
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Get open access articles from PubMed Central that have been published after a specified date. |
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Notify the user of new articles. |
- sciencescraper.pmc.pmc_search.search_pmc(query, sort='relevance', mindate=None, maxdate=None, reldate=None, retstart=0, retmax=20)[source]#
Searches PMC for articles given a query
- Parameters:
query (str) – The query to search for
sort (str, optional) – The sorting order for the search results. Options are: - “relevance”: Sort by relevance - “pub_date”: Sort by publication date in descending order - “JournalName”: Sort by journal in ascending order - “Author”: Sort by first author in ascending order
mindate (str, optional) – The minimum date for the search results. Format is “YYYY/MM/DD”, “YYYY/MM”, or “YYYY”. Must also provide maxdate
maxdate (str, optional) – The maximum date for the search results. Format is “YYYY/MM/DD”, “YYYY/MM”, or “YYYY”. Must also provide mindate
reldate (str, optional) – The number of days to search back from the current date.
retstart (int, optional) – The index of the first article to return
retmax (int, optional) – The maximum number of articles to return
- Returns:
pmc_ids – The PMC IDs of the search results
- Return type:
list
- sciencescraper.pmc.pmc_search.check_new_articles(query, days, chunk_size=None)[source]#
Get open access articles from PubMed Central that have been published after a specified date.
- Parameters:
query (str) – The query to search for
days (int) – The number of days to search back from the current date.
chunk_size (int, optional) – The size of the chunks to split the full text into
- Returns:
pmc_articles – A list of dictionaries containing article information
- Return type:
list of dict
- sciencescraper.pmc.pmc_search.notify_new_articles(articles)[source]#
Notify the user of new articles.
- Parameters:
articles (list of dict) – A list of dictionaries containing the title, authors, journal, year, URL, open access status, keywords, abstract, methods, results, discussion, and references of the new articles.