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Entrez Eutils

Rate limits for the NCBI Entrez E-utilities APIs and PMC APIs. Limits are enforced per IP address (unauthenticated) or per API key (authenticated). NCBI may block IPs that violate usage policies.

Entrez Eutils is the rate-limit profile for PubMed on the APIs.io network.

The provider publishes no rate limits that could be read; the profile records that absence rather than inventing a ceiling.

Tagged areas include Biomedical, Life Sciences, Research, Literature, and Citations.

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PubMed publishes no rate limits that could be read; the profile records that absence rather than inventing a ceiling.
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