Use Case
Stop doing repetitive data & analytics tasks manually. PMC Harvest lets your AI agent handle them automatically through natural conversation. Fetch and retrieve full-text or abstracts of open-access articles from PubMed Central by journal, year, or PMCID using NCBI's public APIs without an API key. This guide shows practical examples of using PMC Harvest to automate common data & analytics workflows and save hours every week.
Install PMC Harvest: npx clawhub@latest --dir ~/.claude/skills install pmc-harvest
Identify the repetitive data & analytics tasks you want to automate
Describe the task to your AI in plain English
PMC Harvest will execute the task and return results directly in the chat
Chain multiple tasks: ask your AI to run a sequence of operations
Copy these prompts and use them with your AI agent after installing PMC Harvest
Automate my data & analytics tasks using PMC Harvest
What repetitive tasks can PMC Harvest handle for me?
Set up a workflow that runs PMC Harvest every morning
Select your agent
Option 1: Install via CLI (recommended)
Recommended (no pre-install needed)
npx clawhub@latest --dir ~/.claude/skills install pmc-harvestOr via clawhub CLI (if already installed)
clawhub --dir ~/.claude/skills install pmc-harvestβ οΈ Requires Node.js 18+. No Node? Use Option 2 below to download the ZIP instead. Install Node.js β
Option 2: Manual install (no Node required)
Download the ZIP, extract it, and place the folder at the path below. Restart your agent to activate.
Install path
~/.claude/skills/pmc-harvest/π‘Extract and place the folder at the path above, then restart your agent.