Downloading structural information

Materials Project
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Hi,

I would like to download all of the structures in the database (the information that would typically go into a CIF file, such as composition, space group, lattice parameters, atomic positions, etc). While I can do this through the API, it seems rude. I see that you have data stored on AWS, but I am not sure which bucket it’s in .

Thanks,
William

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Hi William, thanks for reaching out. The mp-api client automatically reroutes and parallelizes searches without query parameters to our AWS OpenData repositories for full downloads:

from mp_api.client import MPRester

with MPRester() as mpr:
    docs = mpr.materials.summary.search()

Also see #4 in the following docs: