RSC

RSC Lookups API

Look up reference data such as available data sources.

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Operations 1

GET /lookups/datasources Get Available Data Sources #

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https://developer.rsc.org/compounds-v1/apis

Specifications

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https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/rsc/refs/heads/main/openapi/rsc-lookups-api-openapi.yml

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OpenAPI Specification

rsc-lookups-api-openapi.yml Raw ↑ 
openapi: 3.2.0
info:
  title: RSC ChemSpider Compounds Lookups API
  description: The RSC ChemSpider Compounds API provides programmatic access to the ChemSpider chemical database, which contains over 88 million unique chemical compounds.
  version: '1'
  contact:
    name: RSC Developer Support
    url: https://developer.rsc.org/
  termsOfService: https://www.rsc.org/legal/
servers:
- url: https://api.rsc.org/compounds/v1
  description: ChemSpider Production API
tags:
- name: Lookups
  description: Look up reference data such as available data sources.
paths:
  /lookups/datasources:
    get:
      operationId: getDataSources
      summary: Get Available Data Sources
      description: Retrieve the list of data sources available in ChemSpider. Use these names when filtering compound searches by data source.
      tags:
      - Lookups
      responses:
        '200':
          description: List of available data sources
          content:
            application/json:
              schema:
                type: array
                items:
                  type: string
        '401':
          description: Unauthorized
      security:
      - apiKeyAuth: []
components:
  securitySchemes:
    apiKeyAuth:
      type: apiKey
      in: header
      name: apikey
      description: API key obtained from the RSC Developer Portal at developer.rsc.org. Register and create an application to receive an API key.