Search multiple APIs in one query?

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Search multiple APIs in one query? #30

Open rossmounce opened 9 years ago

rossmounce commented 9 years ago

I'm sure this is in the roadmap, but just to flag it up anyway

Would be nice to search EUPMC + arxiv + IEEE from just one query -- if people are really thirsty for knowledge they want it from anywhere!

blahah commented 9 years ago

The reason I haven't yet allowed this is that each of the APIs has a different query language. For a simple plaintext query, e.g. "extremophile", all three APIs can parse it. But as soon as you start using the query syntax, they all differ. If you have a suggestion for how to handle this I'm happy to consider it.

blahah commented 8 years ago

I am going to design a higher-level, simple query language that can be used across all APIs. It will be implemented in v1.0.