pubcrawl

local MCP server

Installation

Terminal

claude mcp add pubcrawl -e NCBI_API_KEY=... -- npx -y @pharmatools/pubcrawl

Run in your project folder. Add --scope user to use it everywhere.

Claude Desktop, Cursor & other clients

Add to claude_desktop_config.json or .cursor/mcp.json.

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "pubcrawl": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@pharmatools/pubcrawl"
      ],
      "env": {
        "NCBI_API_KEY": "..."
      }
    }
  }
}

Fill in the environment variables with your own credentials.

Summary

PubMed & Europe PMC literature search, US/UK drug labelling, and clinical trials for AI assistants.

Questions

pubcrawl is a local MCP server distributed as the npm package @pharmatools/pubcrawl.

Run: claude mcp add pubcrawl -e NCBI_API_KEY=... -- npx -y @pharmatools/pubcrawl

Run: codex mcp add pubcrawl --env NCBI_API_KEY=... -- npx -y @pharmatools/pubcrawl

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