Crystallography API
Crystal structures as an API — powered by the Crystallography Open Database (COD), the open, public-domain collection of over 500,000 crystal structures of organic, inorganic, metal-organic compounds and minerals. Search the database by chemical formula (any standard casing — TiO2, Al2O3, H2O — is normalised automatically) or by free text over mineral names, titles and comments, then look up any structure to get its full crystallographic data: chemical and cell formula, space group (Hermann-Mauguin and Hall), the complete unit cell (a, b, c, alpha, beta, gamma and volume), the source publication (title, authors, journal, year, DOI) and a link to the CIF file. From quartz, calcite and diamond to anatase, corundum and diopside, it is ideal for materials science, solid-state chemistry, mineralogy, crystallography teaching and research tooling. This is a crystal-structure & materials database — distinct from molecule-property (chemistry / PubChem) and protein-structure (PDB) databases. Open data from the Crystallography Open Database (CC0 / public domain).
api.oanor.com/cod-api
