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EDICT(1) NCBI Entrez Direct User's Manual EDICT(1)

edict - HTTP server for EDirect local PubMed archive and search system

edict [-host host] [-port port]

edict offers an HTTP interface for querying a local Entrez Direct archive.

Listen on a specific network interface. In particular, -host localhost will disallow remote connections.
Listen on the given TCP port (8080 by default).

Local archive directory to serve; expected to hold an absolute path.

archive-pubmed(1), cit2pmid(1), nquire(1), xfetch(1), xinfo(1), xlink(1), xsearch(1).

2025-05-26 NCBI