Research & Journal Articles, and Completed Packages

OpenMindat: Open and FAIR mineralogy data from the Mindat database

Author(s): Xiaogang Ma, Jolyon Ralph, Jiyin Zhang, Xiang Que, Anirudh Prabhu, Shaunna M. Morrison, Robert M. Hazen, Lesley Wyborn, Kerstin Lehnert

Published in Geoscience Data Journal Volume 11, Issue 1 p. 94-104

• https://rmets.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/gdj3.204
• Open Access Paper; an inspiring research initiative!

OpenMindat R Package

"An R package for querying and accessing open data from the Mindat API."

• Source: https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/OpenMindat/index.html
• Author(s): Xiang Que [aut, cre], Xiaogang Ma [aut]
• Allows access to the Mindat.org resources through the R programming language for data science activities.
• R Programming Language

OpenMindat Python

• "This is a test version of the OpenMindat Python package, designed to facilitate querying and retrieving data on minerals and geomaterials from the Mindat API."
• https://github.com/ChuBL/OpenMindat and forks of
• Python Programming Language
• Author(s): Jiyin Zhang
• https://github.com/ChuBL/OpenMindat/wiki

Directly Accessing the Mindat.org server through OpenMindat's API

• Mindat.org's server runs PHP to a MySQL database (presumably w/ Apache Web Server & Linux for a "LAMP" configuration).
• Using the API (Application Program Interface), mineralogy data can be directly accessed ! The data and accessibility of the data is much improved through the OpenMindat research (see above).
• Source: https://api.mindat.org/schema/redoc/
• Author(s): Jiyin Zhang, CoryIC
• .YAML download available, OpenAPI Documentation formats the API through the YAML markup.

  "How do I get my API Key?" Article on Mindat.org

  https://www.mindat.org/a/how_to_get_my_mindat_api_key

OpenMindat Usage on GitHub.com

Mindat Data Collector

• Source: https://github.com/MisterSirCode/Mindat-Data-Collector
• Language: JavaScript

How to use mindat api

https://github.com/ChuBL/How-to-Use-Mindat-API

Alpha Implementation of Mindat API in Python

• "A simple python example for the (alpha) version of the API. Requires an API key "
• Source: https://github.com/jolyonralph/mindat_api_test
• Author(s): Jolyon Ralph
• Python Programming Language

Asynchronous Fork of the above repository

• Source: https://github.com/MrHamel/mindat_api_test
• Author(s): Ryan Hamel
• Python Programming Language

An implementation of Mindat.org web-scraping in Python prior to the OpenMindat

https://github.com/MelorGloom/Crystal-Info-Scrapper

What is this repository here?

. Please create a pull request if you can correct, clairfy, or expand on the resources above. :)