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Bulk download PMC Open Access articles via FTP for large-scale mining

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# PMC FTP Bulk Download

## Overview

The PMC FTP Service provides bulk download access to millions of full-text articles from PubMed Central's Open Access Subset. Unlike the single-article APIs (E-utilities, BioC), the FTP service is designed for large-scale corpus construction — downloading entire collections for text mining, NLP training, systematic reviews, and bibliometric analysis. Free, no authentication required.

**Note**: PMC is migrating to AWS-based Cloud Service in August 2026. FTP paths may change; check official docs for updates.

## FTP Access Points

### Connection

```bash
# FTP (classic)