Installation

Stable release

This is NOT an official API call from PubChem.

To install pubchem_api, run this command in your terminal:

$ pip install pubchem_api

This is the preferred method to install pubchem_api, as it will always install the most recent stable release.

If you don’t have pip installed, this Python installation guide can guide you through the process.

From sources

The sources for pubchem_api can be downloaded from the Github repo.

You can either clone the public repository:

$ git clone git://github.com/simonholmes001/pubchem_api

Or download the tarball:

$ curl -OJL https://github.com/simonholmes001/pubchem_api/tarball/master

Once you have a copy of the source, you can install it with:

$ python setup.py install