Pubmed
by SiteCheck in News & content
PubMed articles matching words, optionally from a year: PMID, title, first five authors, journal, date, DOI and link. Two NCBI requests. Attribution: PubMed (NCBI). Information only, not medical advice.
https://api.sitecheck-api.workers.dev/api/pubmed- Price
- $0.001
- per call in USDC
- Uptime
- 100%
- last 30 days
- Response time
- 139 ms
- 1.1 s slowest 5%
- Last check
- Passed
- 4 h ago, next any minute now
Reliability
How to call it
GET https://api.sitecheck-api.workers.dev/api/pubmed
Each call costs $0.001 in USDC on Base, paid with the request over x402.
Run a free test callOne unpaid request, the way an agent sends it. You see the payment challenge it gets back. Nothing is charged.
Example request
From the listing.
GET https://api.sitecheck-api.workers.dev/api/pubmed?from=2025&limit=2&q=insulinParameters
| Parameter | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
from | string | No | First publication year, e.g. 2020 |
limit | string | No | 1 to 20 (default 10) |
q | string | Yes | Search words |
Example response
The provider's example. We can't check it without paying.
Example response, 39 lines
{
"articles": [
{
"authors": [
"Mu SL",
"Li X",
"Wan YG"
],
"date": "2026 Sep",
"doi": "10.19540/j.cnki.cjcmm.20260603.701",
"journal": "Zhongguo Zhong yao za zhi = Zhongguo zhongyao zazhi = China journal of Chinese materia medica",
"link": "https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42869821/",
"pmid": "42869821",
"title": "[Effects and mechanisms of Shenqi Jiangtang Granules in improving sarcopenia in type 2 diabetes mellitus through multiple targets by regulating glucose and lipid metabolism disorder and mitophagy in skeletal muscle]."
},
{
"authors": [
"Puri R",
"Mehta V",
"Sahoo PK"
],
"date": "2026 Sep 22",
"doi": "10.1016/j.jacl.2026.09.010",
"journal": "Journal of clinical lipidology",
"link": "https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42869707/",
"pmid": "42869707",
"title": "Need for population-specific lipid guidelines for South Asians: Focus on the Indian population and its distinct cardiometabolic risk profile."
}
],
"attribution": "PubMed (NCBI)",
"checkedAt": "2026-10-14T07:00:32.908Z",
"disclaimer": "Information only, not medical advice.",
"query": {
"from": 2025,
"q": "insulin"
},
"source": "https://eutils.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/eutils/esearch.fcgi + esummary.fcgi",
"total": 35738
}Call it from code
The curl command shows the payment challenge. The JavaScript and Python versions pay and call, and never pay more than $0.001.
curl: see the payment challenge
# bash or zsh: see the payment challenge. Nothing is charged.
curl -sS -g -i 'https://api.sitecheck-api.workers.dev/api/pubmed?from=2025&limit=2&q=insulin'
# x402 v2 sends the challenge base64-encoded in the PAYMENT-REQUIRED header (v1 sends it in the body).
# To read the header:
curl -sS -g -o /dev/null -D - 'https://api.sitecheck-api.workers.dev/api/pubmed?from=2025&limit=2&q=insulin' \
| grep -i '^payment-required:' | cut -d' ' -f2 | tr -d '\r' | base64 --decodeJavaScript: pay and call
// npm i @x402/fetch @x402/evm viem
import { wrapFetchWithPayment, x402Client } from "@x402/fetch";
import { registerExactEvmScheme } from "@x402/evm/exact/client";
import { privateKeyToAccount } from "viem/accounts";
// Pays at most $0.001 per call.
const client = new x402Client().setSpendControls({ maxAmountPerPayment: "$0.001" });
registerExactEvmScheme(client, { signer: privateKeyToAccount(process.env.EVM_PRIVATE_KEY) });
const pay = wrapFetchWithPayment(fetch, client);
// Not sure it's safe to pay? ToolVet checks it first for $0.005. Pay for that from a separate
// client: this one is capped at $0.001 per payment. GET https://toolvet.app/api/v1/check?url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.sitecheck-api.workers.dev%2Fapi%2Fpubmed
const res = await pay("https://api.sitecheck-api.workers.dev/api/pubmed?from=2025&limit=2&q=insulin");
console.log(res.status, await res.text());Python: pay and call
# pip install "x402[requests,evm]"
import os
from eth_account import Account
from x402 import x402ClientSync
from x402.http.clients import x402_requests
from x402.mechanisms.evm import EthAccountSigner
from x402.mechanisms.evm.exact.register import register_exact_evm_client
# Pays at most $0.001 per call.
client = x402ClientSync().set_spend_controls({"max_amount_per_payment": "$0.001"})
register_exact_evm_client(client, EthAccountSigner(Account.from_key(os.environ["EVM_PRIVATE_KEY"])))
with x402_requests(client) as session:
res = session.get("https://api.sitecheck-api.workers.dev/api/pubmed?from=2025&limit=2&q=insulin")
print(res.status_code, res.text)Security scan
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Recent checks
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| 8 h ago | Passed | 402 | 39 ms | $0.001 |
| 13 h ago | Passed | 402 | 139 ms | $0.001 |
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| 21 h ago | Passed | 402 | 857 ms | $0.001 |