Getting Inspire ID and DOI from an API record

[agbuckley]

I am updating a tool that uses the old Inspire API XML output to retrieve metadata including the Inspire ID, arXiv ID, and DOI, from searches using any of the same as keys. But in the new format, the Inspire ID and DOI don't seem to exist in the JSON output:

• the id is only the Inspire ID if the api/literature URL structure was used, but is the arXiv or DOI identifier if they were used as the search key;
• DOIs are listed for the citations, but not for the record itself as far as I can tell.

Could this canonical information be added to the JSON output... or did I miss something?! Thanks.

[michamos]

The id field is just a shortcut, all the metadata is also available under metadata:

• INSPIRE record ID is under metadata.control_number
• DOI (if present) under metadata.dois
• arXiv ID under metadata.arxiv_eprints.

You can find more information on the different fields available under metadata here: https://inspire-schemas.readthedocs.io/en/latest/schemas/hep.html.

[agbuckley]

I just found the DOIs one... not sure how I missed it. Thanks re. the control_number, I didn't guess that one!

[michamos]

I agree the name is not great, I'll try to clarify this in the docs.

[agbuckley]

Cheers!