Download all pubmed abstracts

Question

Does anyone know how I can easily download all of the pubmed article abstracts? I am working on a text mining project.

The closest one I can find can download one abstract at a time given an pmid, but that would be too slow for my purpose since I'd have to download them one at a time.

Answer 1

You can get ALL the data from NLM directly via FTP.

https://www.nlm.nih.gov/databases/download/terms_and_conditions_pubmed.html

Download and work away without worrying about e-utils.