diff --git a/scibot/bookmarklet.py b/scibot/bookmarklet.py
index bf61387..ccbd405 100644
--- a/scibot/bookmarklet.py
+++ b/scibot/bookmarklet.py
@@ -115,7 +115,7 @@ def bookmarklet_wrapper(request, endpoint):
 
 from scibot.extract import process_POST_request, find_rrids as finder
 from scibot.check import check_already_submitted
-from scibot.services import existing_tags, get_pmid, rrid_resolver_xml
+from scibot.services import existing_tags, rrid_resolver_xml
 from scibot.submit import annotate_doi_pmid, submit_to_h
 
 
@@ -130,35 +130,20 @@ def inner(text: str) -> Generator:
 
     return inner
 
-
+"""
 def pmid_logic(doi, pmid_from_source, target_uri=None, document=None, h=None, tags=None):
     # TODO move the annotation of errors out of this
-    if doi:
-        pmid_from_doi = get_pmid(doi)
-    else:
-        pmid_from_doi = None
-
-    if pmid_from_source and pmid_from_doi:
-        if pmid_from_source == pmid_from_doi:
-            pmid = pmid_from_source
-        else:
-            # TODO responses -> db
-            # TODO tag for marking errors explicitly without the dashboard?
-            r1 = annotate_doi_pmid(target_uri, document, None, pmid_from_doi, h, tags, 'ERROR\nPMID from DOI')
-            r2 = annotate_doi_pmid(target_uri, document, None, pmid_from_source, h, tags, 'ERROR\nPMID from source')
-            pmid = None
-    elif pmid_from_source:
+    if pmid_from_source:
         pmid = pmid_from_source
-    elif pmid_from_doi:
-        pmid = pmid_from_doi
     else:
         pmid = None
 
     return pmid
+"""
 
 
 def rrid_POST(request, h, logloc, URL_LOCK):
-    (target_uri, document, doi, pmid_from_source,
+    (target_uri, document, doi, pmid,
      head, body, text, cleaned_text) = process_POST_request(request)
     running = URL_LOCK.start_uri(target_uri)
     log.info(target_uri)
@@ -168,7 +153,7 @@ def rrid_POST(request, h, logloc, URL_LOCK):
 
     try:
         tags, unresolved_exacts = existing_tags(target_uri, h)
-        pmid = pmid_logic(doi, pmid_from_source, target_uri, document, h, tags)
+        #pmid = pmid_logic(doi, pmid_from_source, target_uri, document, h, tags)
         r = annotate_doi_pmid(target_uri, document, doi, pmid, h, tags)  # todo r -> db with responses
 
         # these values are defined up here as shared state that will be
diff --git a/scibot/extract.py b/scibot/extract.py
index d380bde..d530f88 100644
--- a/scibot/extract.py
+++ b/scibot/extract.py
@@ -441,7 +441,7 @@ def idPaper(self):
                 # scrapeIds(uri)
                 if doi is not None:
                     log.info(doi)
-                    pmid = get_pmid(doi)
+                    # pmid = get_pmid(doi)
                     log.warning('json malformed in get_pmid')
                     log.info(pmid)
                     resp = annotate_doi_pmid(url, doi, pmid, rrcu.h_curation, [])
diff --git a/scibot/release.py b/scibot/release.py
index dc2fb8b..1f0a4f8 100755
--- a/scibot/release.py
+++ b/scibot/release.py
@@ -17,7 +17,7 @@
 from scibot.export import bad_tags, get_proper_citation
 from scibot.submit import annotate_doi_pmid
 from scibot.papers import Papers, SameDOI, SamePMID
-from scibot.services import get_pmid
+# from scibot.services import get_pmid
 from scibot.workflow import parse_workflow
 try:
     breakpoint
diff --git a/scibot/services.py b/scibot/services.py
index 950e97a..4051632 100644
--- a/scibot/services.py
+++ b/scibot/services.py
@@ -37,6 +37,8 @@ def existing_tags(target_uri, h):
 
 # PMIDs
 
+# removed as metabase already handles this codepath
+"""
 def get_pmid(doi):  # TODO
     url = f'https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/?term={quote(doi)}[Location ID]&report=uilist&format=text'
     body = requests.get(url).text
@@ -52,10 +54,13 @@ def get_pmid(doi):  # TODO
     params={'idtype':'auto', 'format':'json', 'ids':doi,}
     endpoint = 'https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/utils/idconv/v1.0/'
     resp = requests.get(endpoint, params=params)
-    if resp.ok:
-        pj = resp.json()
-    else:
-        resp.raise_for_status()
+    try:
+        if resp.ok:
+            pj = resp.json()
+        else:
+            resp.raise_for_status()
+    except HTTPError:
+        return 
 
     log.debug(pj)
     for rec in pj['records']:
@@ -63,7 +68,8 @@ def get_pmid(doi):  # TODO
             return 'PMID:' + rec['pmid']
         except KeyError:
             pass
-
+"""
+            
 # RRIDs
 
 def rrid_resolver_xml(exact, found_rrids):