pyeuropepmc MCP

An MCP server provided by the pyeuropepmc Python library that enables AI agents to search Europe PMC, retrieve full-text articles, parse JATS XML, and export scientific literature data.

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Community listingLocal stdioSource reviewed; not executedPublished by JonasHeinickeBio

You need:pip install pyeuropepmc

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What you can do with it

Search Europe PMC for scientific literature
Download and parse full-text JATS XML
Export papers and metadata
Enrich records with external data

Source and maintenance

Community listingRegistry 4.6.0

mcp-registry: io.github.JonasHeinickeBio/pyeuropepmc@4.6.0 Source repository Project website

Maintenance checked: Nov 1, 2026, 5:34 AM UTC

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pyeuropepmc 4.6.0

pypiuvx

pyeuropepmc package definition

{
  "version": "4.6.0",
  "transport": "stdio",
  "identifier": "pyeuropepmc",
  "runtimeHint": "uvx",
  "registryType": "pypi",
  "registryBaseUrl": "https://pypi.org",
  "packageArguments": [
    {
      "type": "positional",
      "value": "mcp",
      "valueHint": "command"
    }
  ],
  "environmentVariables": [
    {
      "name": "PYEUROPEPMC_MCP_LOG_LEVEL",
      "format": "string",
      "choices": [
        "DEBUG",
        "INFO",
        "WARNING",
        "ERROR"
      ],
      "default": "INFO",
      "description": "Log level, written to stderr: DEBUG, INFO, WARNING or ERROR."
    },
    {
      "name": "SEMANTIC_SCHOLAR_API_KEY",
      "format": "string",
      "description": "Optional. Raises the Semantic Scholar rate limit used by citation_snowball and the semantic_scholar source of unified_search; without it requests are throttled and may get HTTP 429."
    },
    {
      "name": "OPENAI_API_KEY",
      "format": "string",
      "description": "Optional. Enables the LLM-powered tools (analyze_citations, literature_review, paper_screening, ...) with any OpenAI-compatible API. Needs the agentic extra."
    },
    {
      "name": "OPENAI_BASE_URL",
      "format": "string",
      "description": "Optional. Base URL of an OpenAI-compatible API for the LLM tools."
    },
    {
      "name": "OPENAI_MODEL",
      "format": "string",
      "default": "gpt-4o-mini",
      "description": "Optional. Model for the LLM tools."
    },
    {
      "name": "UNPAYWALL_EMAIL",
      "format": "string",
      "description": "Optional. Your contact e-mail address, sent with each Unpaywall request (their terms ask for one). Needed by the find_open_access tool only; there is no default."
    }
  ]
}

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Cursor

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Cursor configuration

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "pyeuropepmc-mcp": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "pyeuropepmc==4.6.0",
        "mcp"
      ],
      "env": {
        "PYEUROPEPMC_MCP_LOG_LEVEL": "<YOUR_PYEUROPEPMC_MCP_LOG_LEVEL>",
        "SEMANTIC_SCHOLAR_API_KEY": "<YOUR_SEMANTIC_SCHOLAR_API_KEY>",
        "OPENAI_API_KEY": "<YOUR_OPENAI_API_KEY>",
        "OPENAI_BASE_URL": "<YOUR_OPENAI_BASE_URL>",
        "OPENAI_MODEL": "<YOUR_OPENAI_MODEL>",
        "UNPAYWALL_EMAIL": "<YOUR_UNPAYWALL_EMAIL>"
      }
    }
  }
}

Cline

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Cline configuration

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "pyeuropepmc-mcp": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "pyeuropepmc==4.6.0",
        "mcp"
      ],
      "env": {
        "PYEUROPEPMC_MCP_LOG_LEVEL": "<YOUR_PYEUROPEPMC_MCP_LOG_LEVEL>",
        "SEMANTIC_SCHOLAR_API_KEY": "<YOUR_SEMANTIC_SCHOLAR_API_KEY>",
        "OPENAI_API_KEY": "<YOUR_OPENAI_API_KEY>",
        "OPENAI_BASE_URL": "<YOUR_OPENAI_BASE_URL>",
        "OPENAI_MODEL": "<YOUR_OPENAI_MODEL>",
        "UNPAYWALL_EMAIL": "<YOUR_UNPAYWALL_EMAIL>"
      }
    }
  }
}

VS Code

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VS Code configuration

{
  "servers": {
    "pyeuropepmc-mcp": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "pyeuropepmc==4.6.0",
        "mcp"
      ],
      "env": {
        "PYEUROPEPMC_MCP_LOG_LEVEL": "<YOUR_PYEUROPEPMC_MCP_LOG_LEVEL>",
        "SEMANTIC_SCHOLAR_API_KEY": "<YOUR_SEMANTIC_SCHOLAR_API_KEY>",
        "OPENAI_API_KEY": "<YOUR_OPENAI_API_KEY>",
        "OPENAI_BASE_URL": "<YOUR_OPENAI_BASE_URL>",
        "OPENAI_MODEL": "<YOUR_OPENAI_MODEL>",
        "UNPAYWALL_EMAIL": "<YOUR_UNPAYWALL_EMAIL>"
      }
    }
  }
}

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Claude Desktop configuration

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "pyeuropepmc-mcp": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "pyeuropepmc==4.6.0",
        "mcp"
      ],
      "env": {
        "PYEUROPEPMC_MCP_LOG_LEVEL": "<YOUR_PYEUROPEPMC_MCP_LOG_LEVEL>",
        "SEMANTIC_SCHOLAR_API_KEY": "<YOUR_SEMANTIC_SCHOLAR_API_KEY>",
        "OPENAI_API_KEY": "<YOUR_OPENAI_API_KEY>",
        "OPENAI_BASE_URL": "<YOUR_OPENAI_BASE_URL>",
        "OPENAI_MODEL": "<YOUR_OPENAI_MODEL>",
        "UNPAYWALL_EMAIL": "<YOUR_UNPAYWALL_EMAIL>"
      }
    }
  }
}

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