Pubmed Search
by Vextorium in Search & web
Search biomedical literature on PubMed (NIH): title, authors, journal, date, DOI, PMID and abstract of each article, newest first, with optional year filter.
https://api.vextorium.com/v1/pubmed-search- Price
- $0.003
- per call in USDC
- Uptime
- 0.0%
- last 30 days
- Response time
- -
- no timed checks yet
- Last check
- Failed
- 5 h ago, next any minute now
Reliability
Latest check failed 5 h ago: Amount "0.003" is not in atomic token units
How to call it
POST https://api.vextorium.com/v1/pubmed-search
Each call costs $0.003 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.
POST https://api.vextorium.com/v1/pubmed-search
content-type: application/json
{
"limit": 2,
"query": "crispr cancer"
}Parameters
| Parameter | Type | Required | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
limit | integer | No | |
query | string | Yes | |
since_year | integer | No |
Example response
The provider's example. We can't check it without paying.
Example response, 33 lines
{
"articles": [
{
"authors": [
"Nejatinejad M",
"Maleki-Aram A"
],
"date": "2027 Jan",
"doi": "10.1016/j.cca.2026.121178",
"journal": "Clinica chimica acta; international journal of clinical chemistry",
"link": "https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42285341/",
"pmid": "42285341",
"summary": "BRAF mutations are key oncogenic alterations across multiple malignancies, including melanoma, thyroid carcinoma, colorectal cancer, non-small cell lung cancer, glioma, and hairy cell leukemia. The most prevalent variant, BRAF-V600E, induces constitutive activation of the MAPK signaling pathway, pro…",
"title": "Molecular Landscape and Advanced Diagnostic Technologies for BRAF Mutations in Cancer: From Quantitative PCR and ddPCR to CRISPR-Based Platforms."
},
{
"authors": [
"Avershina E",
"Birkeland EE"
],
"date": "2026 Dec",
"doi": "10.1080/19490976.2026.2734649",
"journal": "Gut microbes",
"link": "https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/42768305/",
"pmid": "42768305",
"summary": "Bacteria in the human gut influence host physiology and disease risk, but their ecology is strongly shaped by mobile genetic elements (MGEs) such as phages and plasmids. Past interactions between bacteria and MGEs can be inferred from CRISPR-Cas cassettes, which contain short DNA fragments derived f…",
"title": "CRISPR-Cas immune repertoires as an ecological record of bacterial interactions with mobile genetic elements in the human gut."
}
],
"query": "crispr cancer",
"source": "PubMed (NCBI/NLM, EE. UU.)",
"total": 18230
}Call it from code
The curl command shows the payment challenge. The JavaScript and Python versions pay and call, and never pay more than $0.003.
curl: see the payment challenge
# bash or zsh: see the payment challenge. Nothing is charged.
curl -sS -g -i -X POST 'https://api.vextorium.com/v1/pubmed-search' \
-H 'content-type: application/json' \
--data-raw '{"limit":2,"query":"crispr cancer"}'
# 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 - -X POST 'https://api.vextorium.com/v1/pubmed-search' \
-H 'content-type: application/json' \
--data-raw '{"limit":2,"query":"crispr cancer"}' \
| 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 $0.003 per call.
const client = new x402Client().setSpendControls({ maxAmountPerPayment: "$0.003" });
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 $0.003 per payment. GET https://toolvet.app/api/v1/check?url=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.vextorium.com%2Fv1%2Fpubmed-search&method=POST
const res = await pay("https://api.vextorium.com/v1/pubmed-search", {
method: "POST",
headers: { "content-type": "application/json" },
body: JSON.stringify({
"limit": 2,
"query": "crispr cancer"
}),
});
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 $0.003 per call.
client = x402ClientSync().set_spend_controls({"max_amount_per_payment": "$0.003"})
register_exact_evm_client(client, EthAccountSigner(Account.from_key(os.environ["EVM_PRIVATE_KEY"])))
with x402_requests(client) as session:
res = session.post(
"https://api.vextorium.com/v1/pubmed-search",
json={
"limit": 2,
"query": "crispr cancer",
},
)
print(res.status_code, res.text)Security scan
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