Download Symmetrized cif files using MP_API

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Using MP_API, how can we download Symmetrized cif files given Material IDs? I could get cif files but not sure how I can do for Symmetrized ones.

2

Would pymatgen’s SpacegroupAnalyzer help with this?

3

I haven’t checked if SpacegroupAnalyzer can give the symmetrized cif files, but CifWriter class seems to give symmetrized cif:

CifWriter(struct=cosi_structure, symprec=1e-5).write_file(join(cif_folder, f'mp-7577.cif'))

Here, my next question: is the symmetrized cif file generated by the line above always correspond with the symmetrized cif, which we can download from Materials Project website?

4

That depends on the value chosen for symprec which is currently set to 0.1 for the website. HTH.