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EuropePMC Get Fulltext Snippets

Fetch an article's full text (best-effort) and return bounded text snippets around provided terms. Uses deterministic fallbacks: Europe PMC fullTextXML → NCBI PMC OAI (JATS) → NCBI efetch (XML) → PMC HTML. Returns a machine-readable retrieval_trace so callers can see exactly what succeeded/failed.

Livelast probed 2026-04-30 23:07Z· 116msCortexa

Status

The most recent probe succeeded. Safe to call from the agent today.

Last probed: 1d ago
Last success: 1d ago
Last latency: 116ms

Schema

JSON Schema the agent (or your API call) must match.

{
  "anyOf": [
    {
      "required": [
        "terms"
      ]
    },
    {
      "required": [
        "keywords"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "properties": {
    "article_id": {
      "description": "Europe PMC article ID within `source_db` (e.g., PMID for source_db='MED').",
      "type": "string"
    },
    "fulltext_xml_url": {
      "description": "Direct Europe PMC fullTextXML URL (recommended when you already have it from EuropePMC_search_articles).",
      "type": "string"
    },
    "keywords": {
      "description": "Alias for `terms` (case-insensitive). Provided for backwards/UX compatibility.",
      "items": {
        "type": "string"
      },
      "type": "array"
    },
    "max_snippets_per_term": {
      "default": 3,
      "description": "Maximum number of snippets returned per term.",
      "maximum": 10,
      "minimum": 1,
      "type": "integer"
    },
    "max_total_chars": {
      "default": 8000,
      "description": "Hard cap on total characters returned across all snippets.",
      "maximum": 50000,
      "minimum": 1000,
      "type": "integer"
    },
    "pmcid": {
      "description": "PMC ID (e.g., 'PMC11237425' or '11237425'). If provided, the tool derives the Europe PMC fullTextXML URL.",
      "type": "string"
    },
    "source_db": {
      "description": "Europe PMC source database (e.g., 'MED' or 'PMC'). Used with `article_id` to derive the fullTextXML URL.",
      "type": "string"
    },
    "terms": {
      "description": "Terms to search for in the extracted full text (case-insensitive).",
      "items": {
        "type": "string"
      },
      "type": "array"
    },
    "window_chars": {
      "default": 220,
      "description": "Context window size (characters) before and after each match.",
      "maximum": 2000,
      "minimum": 20,
      "type": "integer"
    }
  },
  "type": "object"
}

Examples (1)

Default EuropePMC Get Fulltext Snippets call

public-safeinput

{
  "keywords": [],
  "max_snippets_per_term": 1,
  "max_total_chars": 1,
  "terms": [],
  "window_chars": 1
}

Expected response keys: success

Anonymous-safe example. Rate-limited; no sign-in required.

Identifiers

Catalog ID: tu_EuropePMC_get_fulltext_snippets
Tool name: EuropePMC_get_fulltext_snippets
Added: 2026-04-30 22:47Z
Tags: tooluniverse

EuropePMC Get Fulltext Snippets

Livelast probed 2026-04-30 23:07Z· 116msCortexa

Schema

JSON Schema the agent (or your API call) must match.

{ "anyOf": [ { "required": [ "terms" ] }, { "required": [ "keywords" ] } ], "properties": { "article_id": { "description": "Europe PMC article ID within `source_db` (e.g., PMID for source_db='MED').", "type": "string" }, "fulltext_xml_url": { "description": "Direct Europe PMC fullTextXML URL (recommended when you already have it from EuropePMC_search_articles).", "type": "string" }, "keywords": { "description": "Alias for `terms` (case-insensitive). Provided for backwards/UX compatibility.", "items": { "type": "string" }, "type": "array" }, "max_snippets_per_term": { "default": 3, "description": "Maximum number of snippets returned per term.", "maximum": 10, "minimum": 1, "type": "integer" }, "max_total_chars": { "default": 8000, "description": "Hard cap on total characters returned across all snippets.", "maximum": 50000, "minimum": 1000, "type": "integer" }, "pmcid": { "description": "PMC ID (e.g., 'PMC11237425' or '11237425'). If provided, the tool derives the Europe PMC fullTextXML URL.", "type": "string" }, "source_db": { "description": "Europe PMC source database (e.g., 'MED' or 'PMC'). Used with `article_id` to derive the fullTextXML URL.", "type": "string" }, "terms": { "description": "Terms to search for in the extracted full text (case-insensitive).", "items": { "type": "string" }, "type": "array" }, "window_chars": { "default": 220, "description": "Context window size (characters) before and after each match.", "maximum": 2000, "minimum": 20, "type": "integer" } }, "type": "object" }