[Biopython] Finding what is the most recent Pubmed ID or list of all valid PMIDs

[Renato Alves]

Greetings All,

I'm trying to figure out a way to have a more or less up-to-date list of
Pubmed IDs for validation purposes. This has to be performed on a
programmatic way.

My first attempt was to look for this in NCBI's FTP. I could find
ftp://ftp.ncbi.nih.gov/pubmed/deleted_pmids.txt but not information
about the most recent PMID.

I also tried to use EInfo but the count section under PubMed seems
either outdated or completely unrelated to the total number of assigned
PMIDs. Even when adding the total of deleted_pmids + the number from
EInfo I couldn't get accurate information.

So my question is, does anyone know how to get either a list of all the
valid PMIDs or simply the most recent PMID?

Thanks,
Renato

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