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altmetric 1.0
Altmetric is a Python wrapper for Altmetric API v1 <http://api.altmetric.com/>.
Installation
pip install altmetric
Usage
Fetching details by identifiers
from altmetric import Altmetric
a = Altmetric()
a.id("108989")
a.doi("10.1126/science.1173146")
a.ads("2009sci...325..578w")
a.arxiv("1212.4819")
a.pmid("19644114")
a = Altmetric("you_api_key")
a.fetch("doi","10.1126/science.1173146")
Querying the database
::
from altmetric import Altmetric
a = Altmetric()
a.citations(ā1dā)
a.citations(ā1dā, page=2)
Catching Errors
from altmetric import Altmetric
a = Altmetric()
try:
rsp = a.doi("10.1234/foo")
if rsp is None:
print "DOI not found"
else:
print rsp['altmetric_id']
except AltmetricHTTPException, e:
if e.status_code == 403:
print "You aren't authorized for this call"
elif e.status_code == 420:
print "You are being rate limited"
elif e.status_code == 502:
print "The API version you are using is currently down for maintenance."
elif e.status_code == 404:
print "Invalid API function"
print e.msg
API Reference
Please see http://api.altmetric.com/ for detailed reference on response object
and parameters.
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