# PMC BioC API

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/apis/pubmed/pmc-bioc-api/  
**Provider:** PubMed — https://apis.io/providers/pubmed/  
**Base URL:** https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/research/bionlp/RESTful/pmcoa.cgi  
**Documentation:** https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/tools/developers/

PMC BioC API is one of 10 APIs that [PubMed](https://apis.io/providers/pubmed/) publishes on the [APIs.io](https://apis.io/) network. Tagged areas include BioC, NLP, Text Mining, Full Text, and XML. The published artifact set on APIs.io includes API documentation.

The BioC API provides full text retrieval of PubMed Central Open Access articles in BioC XML or JSON format, optimized for natural language processing (NLP) and text mining applications. Supports article-level and passage-level access to structured article content.

## Machine-readable artifacts (3)

- **Documentation** — https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/tools/bioc/
- **Plans** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/pubmed/refs/heads/main/plans/entrez-eutils.yml
- **FinOps** — https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/pubmed/refs/heads/main/finops/entrez-eutils.yml

## Other PubMed APIs (9)

- [PubMed Central OA API](https://apis.io/apis/pubmed/pubmed-central-oa-api/)
- [PMC OAI-PMH API](https://apis.io/apis/pubmed/pmc-oai-pmh-api/)
- [PMC ID Converter API](https://apis.io/apis/pubmed/pmc-id-converter-api/)
- [PubMed History API](https://apis.io/apis/pubmed/pubmed-history-api/)
- [PubMed Info API](https://apis.io/apis/pubmed/pubmed-info-api/)
- [PubMed Links API](https://apis.io/apis/pubmed/pubmed-links-api/)
- [PubMed Retrieval API](https://apis.io/apis/pubmed/pubmed-retrieval-api/)
- [PubMed Search API](https://apis.io/apis/pubmed/pubmed-search-api/)
- [PubMed Summary API](https://apis.io/apis/pubmed/pubmed-summary-api/)

## Tags

BioC, NLP, Text Mining, Full Text, XML, JSON, PMC

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