Can I somehow search for data?

[gabboraron]

Can I search for a dataset via python API? I want to create a medical data search page, and I want to link to academictorrents, if any search result is available there, but for this, I need an option not to download a dataset, but also to search for them.

[ieee8023]

The only option I see is an XML database file that we publish of title, infohash, and download link (you can change the word "download" to "details" to create the URL of a details page. You can download this and then perform a search locally for the term you want.
URL: https://academictorrents.com/database.xml

There were some programatic calls to the browse page happening before and the site cannot handle that demand so we do not support that because most searches were for unrelated things.

[gabboraron]

Thank you!

How often is updated this file, so when should I download it again? Once each month?

[ieee8023]

It should be updated within 24 hours of a database change. Once a month sounds good.

[gabboraron]

I've created a python3 script for this, so I just post the link here, if anybody is interested in it later: https://github.com/gabboraron/felhoszamitasi_rendszerek/tree/main/tanulmanyok_beadandohoz/academictorrents_search