PubMed Search API Python Client 🔍

A Python client for interacting with the PubMed Search API to retrieve and manage biomedical literature. 📚

Project Structure 📁

PubMed_search_api_python/
├── client.py          # Core client implementation
├── main.py            # Main application entry point
├── pubmed_search.py   # Search functionality and data handling
├── README.md          # This documentation file
└── requirements.txt   # Project dependencies

Dependencies 📦

Make sure you have installed the following dependencies:

• biopython 🧬
• fastapi ⚡
• uvicorn 🦄
• requests 🌐

You can install these dependencies using:

pip install biopython fastapi uvicorn requests

Installation 💻

1. Clone the repository

https://github.com/JackKuo666/PubMed-Search-API-Python.git

2. Install dependencies:

pip install -r requirements.txt

Features ✨

1. PubMed Search 🔎

The pubmed_search.py file contains the search_database function for searching articles and retrieving abstracts from the PubMed database.

2. FastAPI Client 🌟

The client.py file includes the test_client function for testing the search functionality of the FastAPI service.

3. FastAPI Main Application 🚀

The main.py file defines the basic routes for the FastAPI application.

Usage 📖

1. Start FastAPI Service 🎯

Run the following command in the terminal to start the FastAPI service:

uvicorn main:app --reload

This will start a local server at http://127.0.0.1:8001 by default.

2. Test Search Function Using Client 🧪

In client.py, the test_client function is used to test the search functionality. You can modify the term, db, and retmax parameters as needed.

Run the client.py file:

python client.py

Contributing 🤝

Contributions to this project are welcome! If you find any issues or have suggestions for improvements, please submit an Issue or Pull Request.

License 📄

This project is licensed under the MIT License. See the LICENSE file for details.