Materials Project

Materials Project Materials Tasks API

Route for "core" information associated with a given calculation in the Materials Project database. Multiple calculations can ultimately be associated with a unique material, and are the source of its reported properties. The unique identifier for a calculation is its `task_id`. Note that the `material_id` chosen for a given material is sourced from one of the `task_id` values associated with it. Core data in this context refers to calculation quantities such as parsed input and output data (e.g. VASP input flags, atomic forces, structures) and runtime statistics. See the `TaskDoc` schema for a full list of fields returned by this route.

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Operations 4

GET /materials/tasks/trajectory/ Get TrajectoryDoc documents #
GET /materials/tasks/entries/ Get EntryDoc documents #
GET /materials/tasks/deprecation/ Get DeprecationDoc documents #
GET /materials/tasks/ Get TaskDoc documents #

Documentation

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Documentation
https://next-gen.materialsproject.org/api
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GettingStarted
https://docs.materialsproject.org/downloading-data/using-the-api

Specifications

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OpenAPI
https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/materials-project/refs/heads/main/openapi/materials-project-materials-tasks-api-openapi.yml

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OpenAPI Specification

materials-project-materials-tasks-api-openapi.yml Raw ↑ 
openapi: 3.2.0
info:
  title: Materials Project Materials Tasks API
  description: The Materials Project API allows anyone to have direct access to current, up-to-date information from the Materials Project database in a structured way.
  version: 0.86.4rc5.dev1+g77c2c1315
  x-logo:
    url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/materialsproject/emmet/master/emmet-api/emmet/api/core/assets/mp_logo_small.png
security:
- ApiKeyAuth: []
tags:


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