PubChem · Example Payload

Substructure Search

Search for compounds containing a benzene ring substructure using the fast substructure search endpoint.

ChemistryChemical CompoundsDrug DiscoveryBioassayLife SciencesNCBIBioinformatics

Substructure Search is an example object payload from PubChem, with 4 top-level fields. It illustrates the shape of data this provider's APIs accept or return.

Top-level fields

titledescriptionrequestresponse

Example Payload

{
  "title": "Substructure Search by SMILES",
  "description": "Search for compounds containing a benzene ring substructure using the fast substructure search endpoint.",
  "request": {
    "method": "GET",
    "url": "https://pubchem.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/rest/pug/compound/fastsubstructure/smiles/c1ccccc1/cids/JSON?MaxRecords=10",
    "headers": {
      "Accept": "application/json"
    }
  },
  "response": {
    "status": 200,
    "headers": {
      "Content-Type": "application/json"
    },
    "body": {
      "IdentifierList": {
        "CID": [241, 996, 1049, 1108, 1116, 1201, 1203, 1289, 1303, 1313],
        "Size": 10
      }
    }
  }
}

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