# io.github.nickjlamb/pubcrawl (npm · @pharmatools/pubcrawl)

PubMed & Europe PMC literature search, US/UK drug labelling, and clinical trials for AI assistants.

- Trust score: 66/100 (medium)
- Change this week: +20
- Registry status: active
- Liveness: live
- Owner verified: no
- Last scored: 2026-08-03

## Components

- npm · `@pharmatools/pubcrawl`: 66/100 (this document), [markdown](https://verifymcp.io/servers/nickjlamb-pubcrawl/pharmatools-pubcrawl.md), [page](https://verifymcp.io/servers/nickjlamb-pubcrawl/pharmatools-pubcrawl)

## Channel facts

- Registry: `npm`
- Package: `@pharmatools/pubcrawl`
- Version: `2.5.0`
- Transport: `stdio`

## Trust breakdown

How this component scores in each security and reliability category. Every signal is checked automatically from public evidence about the published package, including repeated runs of it in an isolated sandbox, and we only credit what we can confirm. Scores are 0–100 per category. Scoring method: https://verifymcp.io/docs/scoring (what has changed: https://verifymcp.io/docs/scoring/changelog)

Scored 2026-08-03.

- **Supply Chain Security**: 78/100
  - No malware found by supply-chain analysis.
  - CVE check failed: a known medium-severity CVE affects fast-xml-parser 4.5.7, a direct dependency. A fixed version is available.
  - No install/post-install scripts declared.
  - Only part of the dependency tree could be resolved (120 of 125), so this covers what we could see, not the whole tree.
- **Provenance & Transparency**: 45/100
  - Source repository is publicly reachable at the declared URL.
  - Provenance check failed: no build-provenance attestation is published.
  - Clear OSI-approved license (MIT).
  - Actively maintained (last published 3 days ago).
  - Disclosure check failed: no security disclosure policy was found in the source repository.
- **Schema Quality & AI Usability**: 77/100
  - AI-judged instruction clarity (excellent).
  - Tool/resource definitions use about 1311 tokens (~93/item across 14 items; 14 tools + 0 resources), lean.
  - Usage-examples check failed: none of the tools include examples.
- **Stability & Change Management**: 23/100
  - Stability observed for 7 of 30 days with no destabilising changes; credit accrues until the full window elapses.
- **Tool Coverage**: 100/100
  - 100% of tools have a non-trivial description (not blank, and not just the tool's name).
  - 100% of tool parameters carry a description.
- **Capabilities**: 100/100
  - Implements a supported MCP spec version (2025-11-25); the latest is 2026-07-28.

## Install

### Claude

```bash
claude mcp add nickjlamb-pubcrawl -- npx -y @pharmatools/pubcrawl
```

### Codex

```bash
codex mcp add nickjlamb-pubcrawl -- npx -y @pharmatools/pubcrawl
```

### opencode

```json
{
  "$schema": "https://opencode.ai/config.json",
  "mcp": {
    "nickjlamb-pubcrawl": {
      "type": "local",
      "command": [
        "npx",
        "-y",
        "@pharmatools/pubcrawl"
      ],
      "enabled": true
    }
  }
}
```

### OpenClaw

```bash
openclaw mcp add nickjlamb-pubcrawl --command npx --arg -y --arg @pharmatools/pubcrawl
```

### Hermes

```yaml
mcp_servers:
  nickjlamb-pubcrawl:
    command: "npx"
    args: ["-y", "@pharmatools/pubcrawl"]
```

### Other

```json
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "nickjlamb-pubcrawl": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@pharmatools/pubcrawl"
      ]
    }
  }
}
```

## Changelog

Every change recorded for this component, newest first. Days that predate change tracking, or that we cannot explain, say so: "we were watching and nothing happened" and "we were not watching" are different claims.

### 2026-08-02 (score 66, +61)

- [security regression] CVE-2026-41650 affects this package: medium
- [security regression] Provenance: unverified → fail
- [security regression] Known CVEs: unverified → fail
- [security improvement] Install scripts: unverified → pass
- [security improvement] Malware scan: unverified → pass
- [functional improvement] Schema quality: unverified → excellent
- [functional improvement] License: unverified → pass
- [functional improvement] Dependency health: unverified → partial
- [functional improvement] Stability: unverified → 0.20
- [functional improvement] Maintenance: unverified → pass
- [functional improvement] MCP protocol: unverified → pass
- [functional improvement] Tool coverage: unverified → 100
- [functional] Licence: MIT

### 2026-08-01 (score 5, −16)

- [functional regression] Tool coverage: 100 → unverified

### 2026-07-31 (score 21, +15)

- [functional] We updated how we score, so this day's move reflects our rubric, not a change to the server

### 2026-07-30 (score 6, −40)

- [security regression] Malware scan: pass → unverified
- [functional regression] Tool coverage: 100 → unverified
- [functional] First check of Schema quality: unverified
- [functional] Package version: 2.0.0 → 2.5.0

### 2026-07-27 (score 46)

First indexed and scored.

## MCP tools (14)

### `search_pubmed` (~112 tokens)

Search PubMed for biomedical literature. Returns article summaries with PMIDs, titles, authors, journals, and DOIs.

Input parameters:

- `articleType` (string): Article type filter (e.g., review, clinical trial)
- `dateFrom` (string): Start date (YYYY/MM/DD)
- `dateTo` (string): End date (YYYY/MM/DD)
- `maxResults` (number): Maximum number of results
- `query` (string, required): PubMed search query
- `sort` (string): Sort order

### `search_europepmc` (~185 tokens)

Search Europe PMC — a broader biomedical corpus than PubMed that also indexes preprints (bioRxiv, medRxiv), patents, and agricultural/biomedical databases. Unlike search_pubmed, each result includes an abstract snippet, citation count, open-access status, and whether a preprint. Use preprintsOnly to surface work ahead of formal publication.

Input parameters:

- `maxResults` (number): Maximum number of results
- `openAccessOnly` (boolean): Restrict to open-access articles
- `preprintsOnly` (boolean): Restrict to preprints (bioRxiv, medRxiv, etc.)
- `query` (string, required): Search query (Europe PMC query syntax supported, e.g. field tags like AUTH, TITLE, JOURNAL)
- `sort` (string): Sort order: relevance, date (newest first), or cited (most cited first)

### `get_abstract` (~66 tokens)

Get the full structured abstract and metadata for a PubMed article. Returns abstract sections (background, methods, results, conclusions), keywords, MeSH terms, and PMC ID.

Input parameters:

- `pmid` (string, required): PubMed ID
- `structured` (boolean): Return structured abstract sections

### `get_full_text` (~86 tokens)

Get the full text of an open-access article from PubMed Central. Returns article sections, figure/table captions, and reference count. Only works for articles available in PMC.

Input parameters:

- `pmcid` (string): PubMed Central ID (e.g., PMC1234567)
- `pmid` (string): PubMed ID
- `sections` (array): Filter to specific section titles

### `find_related` (~60 tokens)

Find related articles for a given PubMed article. Returns similar papers ranked by relevance score using PubMed's neighbor algorithm.

Input parameters:

- `maxResults` (number): Maximum number of results
- `pmid` (string, required): PubMed ID to find related articles for

### `format_citation` (~50 tokens)

Format a citation for a PubMed article in APA, Vancouver, Harvard, or BibTeX style.

Input parameters:

- `pmid` (string, required): PubMed ID
- `style` (string): Citation style

### `trending_papers` (~81 tokens)

Find recent/trending papers on a topic. Sorted by date, with optional filtering to high-impact journals.

Input parameters:

- `days` (number): Number of days to look back
- `highImpactOnly` (boolean): Filter to high-impact journals only
- `maxResults` (number): Maximum number of results
- `topic` (string, required): Topic or search term

### `get_uspi` (~101 tokens)

Get FDA US Prescribing Information (USPI) for a drug from openFDA (cited to DailyMed). Returns structured labelling sections with LOINC codes.

Input parameters:

- `drug` (string, required): Drug name to look up (e.g., 'metformin', 'atorvastatin')
- `sections` (array): Specific sections to retrieve (e.g., ['indications', 'adverse reactions', 'contraindications']). Returns all sections if omitted.

### `get_smpc` (~97 tokens)

Get UK/EU Summary of Product Characteristics (SmPC) for a drug from eMC (medicines.org.uk). Returns structured labelling sections.

Input parameters:

- `drug` (string, required): Drug name to look up (e.g., 'metformin', 'atorvastatin')
- `sections` (array): Specific sections to retrieve — accepts numbers like '4.1' or names like 'indications'. Returns all sections if omitted.

### `compare_labels` (~98 tokens)

Compare US FDA Prescribing Information vs UK/EU SmPC for a drug side-by-side. Maps equivalent sections (e.g., US Indications ↔ UK 4.1) and returns paired content.

Input parameters:

- `drug` (string, required): Drug name to compare across US and UK labelling
- `sections` (array): Specific topics to compare (e.g., ['indications', 'adverse reactions']). Compares all mapped sections if omitted.

### `search_by_indication` (~82 tokens)

Find drugs approved for a medical condition. Searches US FDA labelling for the condition, then checks UK (eMC) availability for each drug found.

Input parameters:

- `condition` (string, required): Medical condition or indication to search for (e.g., 'type 2 diabetes', 'hypertension')
- `maxResults` (number): Maximum number of drug results to return

### `resolve_drug_name` (~77 tokens)

Convert a brand drug name to its generic name (or a generic to its US brand names), with drug class and common indications. Deterministic — sourced from RxNorm/openFDA, no AI.

Input parameters:

- `drug` (string, required): Brand or generic drug name to resolve (e.g., 'Lipitor' or 'atorvastatin')

### `search_trials` (~152 tokens)

Search ClinicalTrials.gov for clinical trials. Filter by condition, intervention, status, and phase. Returns trial summaries with NCT IDs, status, sponsors, and enrollment info.

Input parameters:

- `condition` (string): Disease or condition (e.g., 'breast cancer', 'diabetes')
- `intervention` (string): Drug or therapy (e.g., 'pembrolizumab', 'radiation')
- `maxResults` (number): Maximum number of results (1-100)
- `phase` (string): Trial phase filter
- `sort` (string): Sort order for results
- `status` (string): Trial recruitment status filter
- `term` (string): General search term (searches all fields)

### `get_trial` (~64 tokens)

Get detailed information about a specific clinical trial from ClinicalTrials.gov. Returns eligibility criteria, study design, arms, outcomes, locations, and associated PubMed IDs.

Input parameters:

- `nctId` (string, required): ClinicalTrials.gov NCT identifier (e.g., NCT03086486)

## Diagnostics

Captured diagnostic sections: Provenance, Vulnerabilities, Dependencies. The full working is on the page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/nickjlamb-pubcrawl/pharmatools-pubcrawl#diagnostics

## Score history

- 2026-08-03: 66
- 2026-08-02: 66
- 2026-08-01: 5
- 2026-07-31: 21
- 2026-07-30: 6
- 2026-07-28: 46
- 2026-07-27: 46

## Links

- npm package: https://www.npmjs.com/package/@pharmatools/pubcrawl
- Socket report: https://socket.dev/npm/package/@pharmatools/pubcrawl
- Repository: https://github.com/nickjlamb/pubcrawl
- Changelog RSS feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/nickjlamb-pubcrawl/pharmatools-pubcrawl/changelog.xml
- Changelog JSON feed: https://verifymcp.io/servers/nickjlamb-pubcrawl/pharmatools-pubcrawl/changelog.json
- HTML version of this page: https://verifymcp.io/servers/nickjlamb-pubcrawl/pharmatools-pubcrawl