eLife

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eLife MCP — keyless open-access life-sciences & biomedical journal articles.

3 tools
0ms auth
free tier 50 calls/day

Tools

search_articles

Search eLife — the open-access journal for life sciences & biomedicine — for articles by keyword (gene, disease, method, organism, author, etc.). Returns matching articles with id, title, type, DOI, p

No parameters required.

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get_article

Get the full metadata and abstract for a single eLife article by its id (e.g. "107545"). Returns title, DOI, type, publication date, authors, abstract, and subjects. Keyless.

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latest_articles

List the most recently published eLife articles (newest first). eLife is the open-access journal for life sciences & biomedicine. Returns id, title, type, DOI, publication date, and authors. Keyless.

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Test with curl

The gateway speaks JSON-RPC 2.0 over HTTP POST. You can test any pack directly from the terminal.

List available tools
bash 
curl -X POST https://gateway.pipeworx.io/elife/mcp \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":1,"method":"tools/list"}'
Call a tool
bash 
curl -X POST https://gateway.pipeworx.io/elife/mcp \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{"jsonrpc":"2.0","id":2,"method":"tools/call","params":{"name":"search_articles","arguments":{}}}'

Use with the SDK

Install @pipeworx/sdk to call tools from any TypeScript/Node project.

TypeScript 
import { Pipeworx } from '@pipeworx/sdk';
const px = new Pipeworx();
const result = await px.call("search_articles", {});
ask_pipeworx 
// Or ask in plain English:
const answer = await px.ask("elife mcp — keyless open-access life-sciences & biomedical journal articles");