10 October 2007 10:00
HubLog: Getting a local copy of MEDLINE
by parmentierf & 1 otherFirst of all you have to get a licence from the NLM, which allows your IP address to access the MEDLINE FTP server.
This PHP script will fetch all the most up-to-date MEDLINE XML files, then create a folder (and some sub-folders) full of several million gzipped, serialised PHP files, each one containing an individual article accessible by PMID.
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