Source code for langchain.utilities.pupmed
import json
import logging
import time
import urllib.error
import urllib.request
from typing import List
from pydantic import BaseModel, Extra
from langchain.schema import Document
logger = logging.getLogger(__name__)
[docs]class PubMedAPIWrapper(BaseModel):
    """
    Wrapper around PubMed API.
    This wrapper will use the PubMed API to conduct searches and fetch
    document summaries. By default, it will return the document summaries
    of the top-k results of an input search.
    Parameters:
        top_k_results: number of the top-scored document used for the PubMed tool
        load_max_docs: a limit to the number of loaded documents
        load_all_available_meta:
          if True: the `metadata` of the loaded Documents gets all available meta info
            (see https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK25499/#chapter4.ESearch)
          if False: the `metadata` gets only the most informative fields.
    """
    base_url_esearch = "https://eutils.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/eutils/esearch.fcgi?"
    base_url_efetch = "https://eutils.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/eutils/efetch.fcgi?"
    max_retry = 5
    sleep_time = 0.2
    # Default values for the parameters
    top_k_results: int = 3
    load_max_docs: int = 25
    ARXIV_MAX_QUERY_LENGTH = 300
    doc_content_chars_max: int = 2000
    load_all_available_meta: bool = False
    email: str = "your_email@example.com"
    class Config:
        """Configuration for this pydantic object."""
        extra = Extra.forbid
[docs]    def run(self, query: str) -> str:
        """
        Run PubMed search and get the article meta information.
        See https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK25499/#chapter4.ESearch
        It uses only the most informative fields of article meta information.
        """
        try:
            # Retrieve the top-k results for the query
            docs = [
                f"Published: {result['pub_date']}\nTitle: {result['title']}\n"
                f"Summary: {result['summary']}"
                for result in self.load(query[: self.ARXIV_MAX_QUERY_LENGTH])
            ]
            # Join the results and limit the character count
            return (
                "\n\n".join(docs)[: self.doc_content_chars_max]
                if docs
                else "No good PubMed Result was found"
            )
        except Exception as ex:
            return f"PubMed exception: {ex}"
[docs]    def load(self, query: str) -> List[dict]:
        """
        Search PubMed for documents matching the query.
        Return a list of dictionaries containing the document metadata.
        """
        url = (
            self.base_url_esearch
            + "db=pubmed&term="
            + str({urllib.parse.quote(query)})
            + f"&retmode=json&retmax={self.top_k_results}&usehistory=y"
        )
        result = urllib.request.urlopen(url)
        text = result.read().decode("utf-8")
        json_text = json.loads(text)
        articles = []
        webenv = json_text["esearchresult"]["webenv"]
        for uid in json_text["esearchresult"]["idlist"]:
            article = self.retrieve_article(uid, webenv)
            articles.append(article)
        # Convert the list of articles to a JSON string
        return articles
    def _transform_doc(self, doc: dict) -> Document:
        summary = doc.pop("summary")
        return Document(page_content=summary, metadata=doc)
[docs]    def load_docs(self, query: str) -> List[Document]:
        document_dicts = self.load(query=query)
        return [self._transform_doc(d) for d in document_dicts]
[docs]    def retrieve_article(self, uid: str, webenv: str) -> dict:
        url = (
            self.base_url_efetch
            + "db=pubmed&retmode=xml&id="
            + uid
            + "&webenv="
            + webenv
        )
        retry = 0
        while True:
            try:
                result = urllib.request.urlopen(url)
                break
            except urllib.error.HTTPError as e:
                if e.code == 429 and retry < self.max_retry:
                    # Too Many Requests error
                    # wait for an exponentially increasing amount of time
                    print(
                        f"Too Many Requests, "
                        f"waiting for {self.sleep_time:.2f} seconds..."
                    )
                    time.sleep(self.sleep_time)
                    self.sleep_time *= 2
                    retry += 1
                else:
                    raise e
        xml_text = result.read().decode("utf-8")
        # Get title
        title = ""
        if "<ArticleTitle>" in xml_text and "</ArticleTitle>" in xml_text:
            start_tag = "<ArticleTitle>"
            end_tag = "</ArticleTitle>"
            title = xml_text[
                xml_text.index(start_tag) + len(start_tag) : xml_text.index(end_tag)
            ]
        # Get abstract
        abstract = ""
        if "<AbstractText>" in xml_text and "</AbstractText>" in xml_text:
            start_tag = "<AbstractText>"
            end_tag = "</AbstractText>"
            abstract = xml_text[
                xml_text.index(start_tag) + len(start_tag) : xml_text.index(end_tag)
            ]
        # Get publication date
        pub_date = ""
        if "<PubDate>" in xml_text and "</PubDate>" in xml_text:
            start_tag = "<PubDate>"
            end_tag = "</PubDate>"
            pub_date = xml_text[
                xml_text.index(start_tag) + len(start_tag) : xml_text.index(end_tag)
            ]
        # Return article as dictionary
        article = {
            "uid": uid,
            "title": title,
            "summary": abstract,
            "pub_date": pub_date,
        }
        return article