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Code snippets

curl "https://api.oanor.com/pubmed-api/v1/summary" \
  -H "x-oanor-key: oanor_test_..."
await fetch("https://api.oanor.com/pubmed-api/v1/summary", {
  headers: { "x-oanor-key": "oanor_test_..." }
});
$ch = curl_init("https://api.oanor.com/pubmed-api/v1/summary");
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, ["x-oanor-key: oanor_test_..."]);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);
$out = curl_exec($ch);
import requests
requests.get(
    "https://api.oanor.com/pubmed-api/v1/summary",
    headers={"x-oanor-key": "oanor_test_..."}
)

Example response

A real response from this endpoint, captured by the latest health check.

{
    "data": {
        "doi": "10.1016/j.lfs.2019.116636",
        "url": "https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31295471/",
        "pmid": "31295471",
        "issue": null,
        "pages": "116636",
        "title": "CRISPR-Cas9 system: A new-fangled dawn in gene editing",
        "volume": "232",
        "authors": [
            "Gupta D",
            "Bhattacharjee O",
            "Mandal D",
            "Sen MK",
            "Dey D",
            "Dasgupta A",
            "Kazi TA",
            "Gupta R",
            "Sinharoy S",
            "Acharya K",
            "Chattopadhyay D",
            "Ravichandiran V",
            "Roy S",
            "Ghosh D"
        ],
        "journal": "Life sciences",
        "language": "eng",
        "pub_date": "2019 Sep 1",
        "epub_date": "2019 Jul 8",
        "pub_types": [
            "Journal Article",
            "Review"
        ]
    },
    "meta": {
        "timestamp": "2026-05-30T18:16:53.676Z",
        "request_id": "e1e45618-972c-48d3-ab10-b0c648e40a02"
    },
    "status": "ok",
    "message": "Summary retrieved",
    "success": true
}