Documentation of the PDG API

The PDG API provides programmatic access to the data published by the Particle Data Group (PDG) in the Review of Particle Physics.

PLEASE NOTE: THIS API IS STILL UNDER DEVELOPMENT AND CURRENTLY ONLY AVAILABLE AS A BETA RELEASE FOR TESTING.

See section “Development status” below for a summary on what is available and what is still under development. The data provided by the present version of the PDG API should not be used in scientific publications without careful checking of every single data item retrieved from the PDG API.

Contents:

• Overview
• PDG Identifiers
• REST API
  • Terms of use
  • Data versions
  • Access
  • Contents of JSON documents
  • Error handling
  • License
• Python API
  • Requirements
  • Installation
  • Usage
  • Detailed software documentation
  • License
• PDG database file
  • Database schema
  • License
• Development status
  • Features supported by the current version
  • Features under development (not yet available in this beta version)
• About
  • Contact

Indices and tables

• Index

• Module Index