pyaltmetric 0.1

Python Altmetric API v1 wrapper

pyAltmetric is a python wrapper for Altmetric API v1. It provides an API for downloading and reading citations both individually and in bulk.

Installation

pip install pyaltmetric

Usage

Fetching by individual citations by identifiers:

from pyaltmetric import Altmetric

a = Altmetric()

a.id("241939")
a.doi("10.1038/news.2011.490")
a.pmid("21148220")
a.rxiv("1108.2455")
a.ads("2012apphl.100y3104b")

a = Altmetric("api_key_goes_here")

Querying the Altmetric.com database:

a.citations("1w", page=1, nlmid="0410462")

Reading a citation:

from pyaltmetric import Citation

b = a.id("241939")
c = Citation(b)

print c.title

for field in c:
    print field

Reading multiple citations:

form pyaltmetric import CitationCollection

b = Citation(a.id("241939"))
c = Citation(a.doi("10.1038/news.2011.490"))

d = CitationCollection()
d.add_citation(b, c)

for citation in c:
    print citation

• Free software: BSD license