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A simple yet effective means of extracting meaningful data from NCBI and PubMed.
Please note that PubScout is designed to be used as a tool alongside PubAnalyst. PubAnalyst requires Python 3 and SpaCy in order to run.
# For yarn
yarn global add pubscout
# For npm
sudo npm install pubscout --global
# Help menu
pubscout --help
# Scan a specific keyword on PubMed, make sure to put your search query in double quotes
pubscout --scan "late stage cancer"
# Return only 100 results
pubscout --scan "cancer" --amount 100
# Scan PMC instead of PubMed
pubscout --scan "cancer" --db pmc
# Download contents of research article by its ID
pubscout --download --index 9001
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A simple yet effective means of extracting meaningful data from NCBI and PubMed.
The npm package pubscout receives a total of 1 weekly downloads. As such, pubscout popularity was classified as not popular.
We found that pubscout demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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