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Search API not available anymore #29

Closed LightDestory closed 2 years ago

LightDestory commented 2 years ago

The documentation 1.0 describes a entries search API but the it is not a usable endpoint...

Any idea on what happened? Search API has been deprecated without any notice?

ieee8023 commented 2 years ago

The search API was turned off because there was an insane amount of non academic searches which was degrading service.

A scalable approach for us is to download a database feed which is updated daily and then perform a local search. https://academictorrents.com/database.xml

I will update the documentation for the API soon and add more info about this xml feed. Sorry about that.

LightDestory commented 2 years ago

I am going to close this because the issue has been addressed. But I found some inconsistences on the xml. I will open a new issue.