| name | archive-pmc |
| description | Use when maintaining a local PubMed Central full-text archive for offline PMC search or bulk processing. |
| disable-model-invocation | true |
| user-invocable | true |
archive-pmc
Quick Start
- Command:
archive-pmc [download|verify|missing|index]
- Local executable:
/home/vimalinx/miniforge3/envs/bio/bin/archive-pmc
- Full reference: See
references/help.md for complete usage details
When To Use This Tool
- Maintain a local PubMed Central full-text archive for offline article mining.
- Backfill missing PMC packages or verify an existing local archive after interrupted transfers.
- Rebuild local posting structures once the local PMC content is stable.
- Prefer this over ad hoc PMC file mirroring when you want the standard EDirect archive layout.
Common Patterns
export EDIRECT_LOCAL_ARCHIVE=/data/edirect
archive-pmc
archive-pmc -missing
archive-pmc -index
Recommended Workflow
- Set
EDIRECT_LOCAL_ARCHIVE and confirm the local archive root is writable.
- Ensure the EDirect helper commands needed for drive setup are available.
- Run
archive-pmc to fetch and populate the local archive.
- If a transfer was interrupted, use
-verify or -missing before rebuilding postings.
- Run
-index only after the local content looks complete, then inspect the timing summary for DAT, DWN, POP, IDX, INV, COL, MRG, and PST.
Guardrails
--help and --version are not metadata-only; they still run archive setup and can emit missing-helper or missing-environment errors.- The script requires
EDIRECT_LOCAL_ARCHIVE, pm-setup, and pm-prepare.
download, verify, missing, and index are distinct modes; use them deliberately instead of assuming a no-arg run will validate everything.- The cleanup ladder (
-clean, -scrub, -scour, -erase, -zap) is destructive and must be run separately from -index.
-stem changes the generated text index content, so record it if you need reproducible local search behavior.
