PubMed MCP Server

MCPOpen SourceMIT51.9

by grll • Search & Retrieval

A lightweight MCP server that lets agents search and fetch PubMed articles using the pubmedclient Python package.

Example Use Cases

1
Search PubMed for biomedical citations and retrieve article metadata programmatically.
2
Fetch full PubMed article records for summarization, evidence extraction, or citation generation.
3
Integrate PubMed search/fetch capabilities into Claude via a simple uvx/claude_desktop_config.json setup.

Description

This MCP server exposes search and fetch functionality for PubMed, relying on the pubmedclient Python package to retrieve citations and article metadata. It is intended to be run via uvx and configured through claude_desktop_config.json (example provided), with environment variables to select Python and prerelease behavior. The server is useful for agents that need programmatic access to biomedical literature for summarization, citation extraction, or evidence retrieval. Setup requires ensuring uv/uvx is available and a compatible Python runtime (the README suggests Python 3.12).

Capabilities(1 total)

Tools (1)

search_abstracts

Search abstracts on PubMed database based on the request parameters. While it returns a free-form text in practice this is a list of strings containing: * the title of the article * the abstract content * the authors * the journal name * the publication date * the DOI * the PMID Args: request: SearchAbstractsRequest

request:any*

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Risk Level

MINIMAL

Read-only data retrieval, no side effects

Trust Score

C59/100

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Service TypeMCP

Pricing ModelFree

Capabilities1 Tools / 0 Prompts / 0 Resources

Ownergrll

CategorySearch & Retrieval

DependenciesStandalone

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