Missing articles from the REST API

[Samuel Barnett]

I'm trying to scrape articles from the API however there are some I can't access for some reason even though they appear to be accessible on the website as openaccess

There are approximately 1200 examples of articles published on 2024-06-25 from which I get a 404 error

Some examples are:

39040661

39040976

39040421

39040415

39040401

39040315

My API request:

https://www.ebi.ac.uk/europepmc/webservices/rest/{ARTICLEID}/fullTextXML

Thanks,

Sam

[Madhumiethaa Jayaprabha Palanisamy]

Hi Sam,

It looks like the issue is with the type of ID you are using in the API call. The fullTextXML module requires the PMC ID (which starts with 'PMC_'). The PMCIDs (PubMed Central IDs) are specific identifiers for full text articles.

Example, for the article id 39040661, the corresponding pmc id is PMC11260570
Api: https://www.ebi.ac.uk/europepmc/webservices/rest/PMC11260570/fullTextXML

Hope this helps, let us know if you have further queries.


Kind regards,
Madhu