EBSCO Developer | MEDSAPI Consumer Health Code Samples

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Use the code samples below as examples to create an application in your desired language. The following code samples use the /v1/content/search endpoint to search articles. Get started and begin to understand the endpoint by following the examples below in the language of your choice. Substitute a valid token for the placeholder below to run the examples.

Code Samples

cURL

# Search Consumer Health:

curl -X POST "https://apis.ebsco.com/medsapi-consumer-health/v1/content/search" -H "accept: application/json" 
-H "Authorization: Bearer TOKEN" -H "Content-Type: application/json" -d "{ \"query\": \"chromosomal abnormalities\", \"pageSize\": 10, 
\"fields\": [ \"title\" ]}"

Java

// Search Consumer Health:

// Construct the client
OkHttpClient client = new OkHttpClient();

// Create the URL
HttpUrl url = new HttpUrl.Builder()
    .scheme("https")
    .host("apis.ebsco.com")
    .addPathSegment("medsapi-consumer-health")
    .addPathSegment("v1")
    .addPathSegment("content")
    .addPathSegment("search")
    .build();

// Build the body   
MediaType mediaType = MediaType.parse("application/json");
RequestBody body = RequestBody.create(mediaType, "{ \"query\": \"chromosomal abnormalities\", \"pageSize\": \"10\", \"fields\": [ \"title\" ]}");  

// Build the request
Request request = new Request.Builder()
    .url(url)
    .post(body)
    .addHeader("Accept", "application/json")
    .addHeader("Authorization", "Bearer TOKEN")
    .addHeader("Content-Type", "application/json")
    .build();

JavaScript

// Search Consumer Health: 

const host = "https://apis.ebsco.com";
const  path = "/medsapi-consumer-health/v1/content/search";

// Create the Request
const url = host + path;
const requestBody = {
  "query": "chromosomal abnormalities",
  "pageSize": 10,
  "fields": [
    "title"
  ]
};
const settings = {
  "async": true,
  "crossDomain": true,
  "url": url,
  "method": "POST",
  "processData": false,
  "data": JSON.stringify(requestBody),
  "headers": {
        Accept: "application/json",
        Authorization: "Bearer TOKEN",
        "Content-Type": "application/json"
  }  
}

// Send the Request
$.ajax(settings).done(function (response) {
  console.log(response);
});

Ruby

# Search Consumer Health

# Form the URL 
urlstr = File.join('https://', 'apis.ebsco.com', '/medsapi-consumer-health', '/v1/content/search')
url = URI(urlstr)

# Create the HTTP object
http = Net::HTTP.new(url.host, url.port)
http.use_ssl = true
http.verify_mode = OpenSSL::SSL::VERIFY_NONE

# Create the request
request = Net::HTTP::Post.new(url)
request["Accept"] = "application/json"
request["Authorization"] = "Bearer TOKEN"
request["Content-Type"] = "application/json"
request.body = { query: 'chromosomal abnormalities', pageSize: '10', fields: [ 'title' ]}.to_json

# Send the request
response = http.request(request)

Python

# Search Consumer Health

# Form the URL
url = ''.join(['/medsapi-consumer-health','/v1', '/content/search'])

# Create Connection Instance
conn = http.client.HTTPSConnection("apis.ebsco.com")

# Payload
payload = '{"query":"chromosomal abnormalities","pageSize":10,"fields":["title"]}'

# Create the Request Headers
headers = {
    "Authorization": "Bearer TOKEN",
    "Accept": "application/json",
    "Cache-Control": "no-cache",
    }

# Send Request  
conn.request("POST", url, payload, headers)