Inquiry About Accessing “Description (Auto-generated)” via the API

Materials Project
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Hello,
My name is Yerim Oh, and I am a researcher at Seoul National University.

Thank you very much for providing such a valuable database and API.
We are currently using your API to collect data at scale for our research.

I would like to ask a question regarding the availability of a specific field.
On the website, each item’s detail page includes a
“Description (Auto-generated)” field,
but this field does not appear to be included in the API responses or bulk downloads.

May I ask whether there is a way to access this
Description (Auto-generated) content via the API,
or through a dedicated endpoint or bulk export option?

This information is important for our text-based analysis,
so any guidance on how to retrieve it programmatically would be greatly appreciated.

Thank you very much for your time and support.
I look forward to your response.

Best regards,
Yerim Oh

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Hey @yerimoh these are in the robocrys endpoint, you can download all of them programmatically with our mp_api python client:

from mp_api.client import MPRester

with MPRester(api_key="your_api_key_goes_here") as mpr:
    robocrys_docs = mpr.materials.robocrys.search_docs()

See our docs for more examples

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Thank you for reply ! :slight_smile: