Welcome to Arcas’s documentation!

A large number of scholarly databases and collections offer some form of API access. An API is an online tool to access data straight from the databases.

Arcas is python tool designed to help communicate/ping various of these APIs.

Table of Contents

• Installing Arcas
• Tutorials
  • Tutorial I: Retrieving a single article
  • Tutorial II: Retrieve an article from various APIs
  • Tutorial III: Retrieving a large number of articles
• Reference
  • List of available APIS
  • Results set

Indices and tables

• Search Page