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Common chemistry DB #410

Open chengmengerlai opened 2 years ago

chengmengerlai commented 2 years ago

Website URL: https://commonchemistry.cas.org
License: CC BY-NC 4.0
Desired ZIM Title: commonchemistry
Desired ZIM Description: chemical information
Desired ZIM Icon –png (URL or attach one): https://commonchemistry.cas.org/assets/cas_color.svg
Language (ISO 639-3): eng
Desired Main Page (homepage, if different from website URL): n
Is this a MediaWiki?: no

Popolechien commented 2 years ago

I'm not sure zimit could work on a database like this but this would be interesting material nonetheless. @rgaudin am I correct, and would the availability of an API make it easier to build a bespoke scraper?

benoit74 commented 2 years ago

FYI, I had a look at the API and it's fairly limited, you can only search for something, I did not found any way to scrap this stuff. I assume the way to go is to contact the website owner and try to convince them to provide a database export (since the data is CC-BY-NC, we might hope to receive a positive answer.

kelson42 commented 2 years ago

@walkerma Any thoughts about this?

benoit74 commented 2 years ago

I sent them a mail on their contact form to check with them if there is something feasible or not.