`search`

Pack: europepmc · Connect: https://pipeworx.io/mcp (see Connect below for a single-pack URL)

No MCP client? Call it directly: GET https://gateway.pipeworx.io/v1/tools/search for the schema, then POST the same URL with its arguments for the data.

Europe PMC search for biomedical literature and preprints — the preprint server index for medicine and life sciences (bioRxiv, medRxiv, Research Square), for drug/clinical/disease preprint questions where arXiv (physics/CS) has nothing. Lucene-style query — use SRC:PPR to filter to preprints only (e.g. “lecanemab AND alzheimer AND SRC:PPR”), AUTH: for author, ABSTRACT: for abstract text. Returns metadata for matching articles.

Parameters

Name	Type	Required	Description
`query`	string	yes	e.g. “CRISPR OR Cas9”, “AUTH:Doudna AND ABSTRACT:editing”, “lecanemab AND SRC:PPR” (SRC:PPR = preprints only)
`page`	number	no	1-based page (default 1)
`pageSize`	number	no	1-100 (default 25)

Example call

Arguments

{
  "query": "CRISPR AND gene editing"
}

curl

curl -X POST https://gateway.pipeworx.io/europepmc/mcp \
  -H 'Content-Type: application/json' \
  -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"method":"tools/call","params":{"name":"search","arguments":{"query":"CRISPR AND gene editing"}}}'

TypeScript (@pipeworx/sdk)

import { Pipeworx } from '@pipeworx/sdk';
const pipeworx = new Pipeworx();

const result = await pipeworx.call('search', {
  "query": "CRISPR AND gene editing"
});

More examples

{
  "query": "AUTH:Doudna AND ABSTRACT:cas9",
  "page": 1,
  "pageSize": 50
}

{
  "query": "lecanemab AND alzheimer AND SRC:PPR"
}

Response shape

Field	Type	Description
`total`	number
`page`	number
`returned`	number
`results`	array

Full JSON Schema

{
  "type": "object",
  "properties": {
    "total": {
      "type": "number"
    },
    "page": {
      "type": "number"
    },
    "returned": {
      "type": "number"
    },
    "results": {
      "type": "array",
      "items": {
        "type": "object",
        "properties": {
          "source": {
            "type": "string"
          },
          "id": {
            "type": "string"
          },
          "pmid": {
            "type": "string"
          },
          "pmcid": {
            "type": [
              "null",
              "string"
            ]
          },
          "doi": {
            "type": "string"
          },
          "title": {
            "type": "string"
          },
          "publication_year": {
            "type": "number"
          },
          "publication_date": {
            "type": "string"
          },
          "journal": {
            "type": "string"
          },
          "authors": {
            "type": "array",
            "items": {
              "type": "string"
            }
          },
          "author_list_truncated": {
            "type": "boolean"
          },
          "publication_types": {
            "type": "array",
            "items": {
              "type": "string"
            }
          },
          "cited_by_count": {
            "type": "number"
          },
          "open_access": {
            "type": "boolean"
          },
          "in_europe_pmc": {
            "type": "boolean"
          },
          "has_preprint": {
            "type": "boolean"
          },
          "has_published_version": {
            "type": "boolean"
          },
          "linked_status_notices": {
            "type": "array",
            "items": {}
          },
          "abstract": {
            "type": "string"
          },
          "abstract_truncated": {
            "type": "boolean"
          },
          "europe_pmc_url": {
            "type": "string"
          }
        }
      }
    }
  }
}

Connect

Add this to your MCP client config — every tool in the catalog, including this one — or use one-click install buttons:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "pipeworx": {
      "url": "https://pipeworx.io/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Connect to just the europepmc pack

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "europepmc": {
      "url": "https://gateway.pipeworx.io/europepmc/mcp"
    }
  }
}

See Getting Started for client-specific install steps.

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