# @pharmatools/pubcrawl

MCP server for PubMed & Europe PMC literature search, US/UK drug labelling, and clinical trials — built by PharmaTools.AI

- **Type:** MCP server
- **Trust:** 60/100 (B), scored on the package rubric
- **Verification:** community-indexed — nobody has claimed this listing
- **Version:** 2.5.1
- **Author:** PharmaTools.AI
- **License:** MIT
- **npm:** @pharmatools/pubcrawl
- **Source:** https://github.com/nickjlamb/pubcrawl
- **Compatible clients:** claude-code, cursor, copilot, gemini (basis: transport)

## Trust

60/100 (B), scored on the package rubric
- Publisher verified: no
- Install scripts: nothing suspicious found
- Prompt-injection scan: not run
- Obfuscation scan: not run
- Evidence age: 10 days

## Security scan

- **Status:** clean
- **Scanned:** 2026-08-18T13:55:11.010Z
- **Version scanned:** 2.5.0
- **CVEs:** none found by OSV at scan time

## Tools

14 declared. Statically extracted from the shipped source — a floor on the surface, not a census.
- `get_abstract`
- `format_citation`
- `compare_labels`
- `get_full_text`
- `find_related`
- `resolve_drug_name`
- `search_europepmc`
- `search_by_indication`
- `search_pubmed`
- `get_smpc`
- `trending_papers`
- `get_trial`
- `search_trials`
- `get_uspi`

## Install

**Verdict: review** — Installable, but 1 thing to check first: No publisher has proved control of this listing; it is indexed, not vouched for.
**Cautions** (coverage gaps and advisories — never blocking)
- No publisher has proved control of this listing; it is indexed, not vouched for.
**Config** (claude-code):
```json
"{\n  \"mcpServers\": {\n    \"pubcrawl\": {\n      \"command\": \"npx\",\n      \"args\": [\n        \"-y\",\n        \"@pharmatools/pubcrawl\"\n      ],\n      \"env\": {\n        \"NCBI_API_KEY\": \"<YOUR_NCBI_API_KEY>\"\n      }\n    }\n  }\n}"
```
**Credentials it will ask for** (names only — Forge never holds a value):
- `NCBI_API_KEY` — Ncbi API Key (optional)
Placeholders only. Forge never holds, brokers, or transmits a credential value — replace each <YOUR_NAME> in your own config file. Do not send a value back to Forge; no Forge endpoint accepts one.
- This entry needs 1 credential (0 required). The generated config carries placeholders, so it will fail in the editor rather than at runtime if they are left unset.

## Blast radius

Moderate blast radius — holds an api key; runs on your machine.
- Floor 23, ceiling 23 (tier: moderate)
- This is impact, not likelihood. A high radius is not a defect: a filesystem server is supposed to write files. It is never part of the trust score.

## Machine-readable views of this entry

- Signed JSON: https://forgeregistry.com/api/v1/packages/%40pharmatools%2Fpubcrawl
- Install plan: https://forgeregistry.com/api/v1/packages/%40pharmatools%2Fpubcrawl/install-plan
- Alternatives: https://forgeregistry.com/api/v1/alternatives/%40pharmatools%2Fpubcrawl
- HTML page: https://forgeregistry.com/registry/%40pharmatools%2Fpubcrawl
- MCP: POST https://forgeregistry.com/api/mcp → `forge_get_package` / `forge_install_plan`

## About this document

Generated by Forge (https://forgeregistry.com) — a compact rendering of the same record served, signed, at the JSON URL above. Trust and scan facts are the registry's own measurements; anything Forge did not measure is named as unmeasured rather than omitted.