DOWNLOAD-PMC(1)

✨ NAME ✨

download-pmc — bestie, it downloads an NCBI PubMed Central archive dump 💖

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

download-pmc [-ftp|-http[s]]

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

Okay so picture this: you run download-pmc and it goes and grabs a whole entire copy of NCBI's PubMed Central archive and just... drops it right into your current directory. That's it. That's the whole job. Slay. 🎀

It's giving "I don't make the rules, I just download the archive." Periodt. ✨

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💅 OPTIONS 💅

• -ftp — pulls the data you need over FTP. This is the default, so if you say nothing at all, this is what you get. No cap. 🫶
• -http[s] — pulls the data you need over HTTPS instead. Use the s when you want that secure lil vibe. 🔒✨

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👑 SEE ALSO 👑

Like, go read these too, they're all in the same friend group fr fr:

• archive-pmc(1)
• download-flatfile(1)
• download-ncbi-data(1)
• download-pubmed(1)
• download-sequence(1)
• nquire(1)
• pm-prepare(1)
• refseq-nm-cds(1)
• xfetch(1)
• xinfo(1)
• xlink(1)
• xsearch(1)

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NCBI · 2025-05-26

Okay that's the whole page, bestie — this one's from NCBI's Entrez Direct User's Manual, dated 2025-05-26, and it's literally the moment I clock out. Go download your archive, hydrate, and remember: FTP is the default, so if you didn't pick anything, you picked FTP. 💖🧚🌸