Materials-Consortia/optimade-python-tools

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Tools for implementing and consuming OPTIMADE APIs in Python

Stars: 91
Forks: 54
Open beginner issues: 0
Indexed issues: 81

Dominant language: Python
License: MIT
Last GitHub push: Aug 6, 2026
Latest indexed: Sep 20, 2026
Contributing guide: Contributing guide
Code of conduct: No code of conduct
Beginner labels: help wanted good first issue
PR merge metrics: No merged PRs in 30d

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81 open issues indexed

Consider allowing provider to specifiy the level of database index they would like. Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 48/100

Materials-Consortia/optimade-python-tools#2420 · Opened Jul 2, 2026
Consider allow mounting a directory to serve static files in FastAPI Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

Materials-Consortia/optimade-python-tools#2417 · Opened Jul 1, 2026
Adding structural fields from v1.3 Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 65/100

Materials-Consortia/optimade-python-tools#2411 · 1 comment · Opened Jun 30, 2026
Supporting v1.3.0 features Open

help wanted

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

Materials-Consortia/optimade-python-tools#2339 · Opened Dec 7, 2025
Case-sensitivity of string searches Open

suggestions transformers

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

Materials-Consortia/optimade-python-tools#2268 · Opened Apr 29, 2025
Add option to `OptimadeClient` to automatically cache results to an OPTIMADE JSONL file Open

client good first issue help wanted suggestions

Materials-Consortia/optimade-python-tools#2267 · 1 comment · 1 assignee · Opened Apr 24, 2025
Automatically disable sorting on un-indexed fields Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

Materials-Consortia/optimade-python-tools#2258 · Opened Mar 24, 2025
Rethink default MongoDB count strategy Open

server

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

Materials-Consortia/optimade-python-tools#2251 · Opened Mar 20, 2025
Add optimisation for `included` references for MongoDB Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

Materials-Consortia/optimade-python-tools#2228 · Opened Feb 12, 2025
Preflight client callback to allow queries to be customised per provider Open

client suggestions

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

Materials-Consortia/optimade-python-tools#2188 · 1 comment · Opened Nov 19, 2024
Funding section in README Open

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

Materials-Consortia/optimade-python-tools#2187 · Opened Nov 18, 2024
Use pydantic model for Query parameters Open

dependency_updates enhancement models priority/low server

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

Materials-Consortia/optimade-python-tools#2151 · 1 reaction · Opened Sep 18, 2024
SSL verification is not turned off despite setting skip_ssl = True Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 48/100

Materials-Consortia/optimade-python-tools#2130 · 4 comments · Opened Aug 12, 2024
Potential optimisations for requests that do not ask for a filter Open

enhancement suggestions

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 35/100

Materials-Consortia/optimade-python-tools#2093 · 3 comments · Opened Jun 12, 2024
Consider adjusting client to be provider-parallel rather than database-parallel Open

client

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

Materials-Consortia/optimade-python-tools#2084 · Opened Jun 11, 2024
Changelog generator cannot handle backported releases Open

bug deployment

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

Materials-Consortia/optimade-python-tools#1957 · Opened Jan 30, 2024
Add app startup healthcheck to catch config errors Open

server

Materials-Consortia/optimade-python-tools#1947 · 1 assignee · Opened Jan 23, 2024
Client: graceful way to pause/continue and deal with runtime errors? Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 30/100

Materials-Consortia/optimade-python-tools#1900 · 6 comments · Opened Dec 17, 2023
INFO gives wrong location for loaded config file Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 45/100

Materials-Consortia/optimade-python-tools#1782 · Opened Sep 14, 2023
Add support for partial data format to Optimade python tools. Open

Materials-Consortia/optimade-python-tools#1738 · 1 assignee · Opened Aug 4, 2023
Zenodo release archives miss out changelog and version Open

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 25/100

Materials-Consortia/optimade-python-tools#1699 · 1 comment · Opened Jul 9, 2023
Implementation Metadata fields Open

enhancement ergonomics help wanted models OPTIMADE v1.2

Materials-Consortia/optimade-python-tools#1697 · 1 assignee · Opened Jul 5, 2023
Validator should follow `available_api_version` links and check they have info endpoints Open

suggestions validator

Materials-Consortia/optimade-python-tools#1672 · 1 assignee · Opened Jun 20, 2023
ruff not reporting which file has been modified Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 35/100

Materials-Consortia/optimade-python-tools#1549 · Opened Mar 7, 2023
Stricten requirements on base info fields Open

Difficulty 2/5 1-3 hours Newbie friendliness 45/100

Materials-Consortia/optimade-python-tools#1492 · 4 comments · Opened Feb 2, 2023
Support for enhanced list comparisons Open

enhancement help wanted transformers

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

Materials-Consortia/optimade-python-tools#1467 · 1 comment · Opened Jan 9, 2023
Fix typos in models versus specification Open

help wanted OPTIMADE v1.2

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 42/100

Materials-Consortia/optimade-python-tools#1424 · Opened Dec 6, 2022
Support for OPTIMADE v1.2.x Open

help wanted OPTIMADE v1.2 schema

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 18/100

Materials-Consortia/optimade-python-tools#1419 · Opened Dec 6, 2022
Support for property definitions Open

help wanted OPTIMADE v1.2 schema

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 20/100

Materials-Consortia/optimade-python-tools#1416 · Opened Dec 6, 2022
CI test for the minimum deps versions specified in setup.py Open

CI suggestions

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

Materials-Consortia/optimade-python-tools#1344 · 1 reaction · Opened Oct 1, 2022
Add `from_<x>` code paths to generic entry adapter Open

adapters priority/low

Materials-Consortia/optimade-python-tools#1342 · 1 assignee · Opened Sep 26, 2022
Make it easier to override server config values in Python Open

config priority/medium suggestions

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

Materials-Consortia/optimade-python-tools#1298 · Opened Aug 7, 2022
Support for deep pagination of Elasticsearch queries Open

transformer/Elasticsearch

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 30/100

Materials-Consortia/optimade-python-tools#1291 · 2 comments · Opened Jul 27, 2022
Adding option to return binary data Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

Materials-Consortia/optimade-python-tools#1285 · Opened Jul 21, 2022
Do we want to declare nested provider-specific properties in the config file? Open

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

Materials-Consortia/optimade-python-tools#1265 · 1 comment · Opened Jul 5, 2022
Support fuzzy comparison lists in grammar Open

grammar help wanted OPTIMADE v1.2

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

Materials-Consortia/optimade-python-tools#1246 · Opened Jun 14, 2022
Implement Boolean values in optimade-python-tools. Open

help wanted OPTIMADE v1.2 priority/medium

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

Materials-Consortia/optimade-python-tools#1235 · 4 comments · Opened Jun 9, 2022
Support for the `/files` endpoint Open

enhancement help wanted OPTIMADE v1.2 server suggestions

Materials-Consortia/optimade-python-tools#1225 · 1 reaction · 1 assignee · Opened Jun 3, 2022
Add ability to configure which response fields are returned by default Open

config server suggestions

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

Materials-Consortia/optimade-python-tools#1220 · 1 comment · 1 reaction · Opened Jun 2, 2022
Improve documentation for setting `base_url` and `root_path` Open

docs

Materials-Consortia/optimade-python-tools#1218 · 1 reaction · 1 assignee · Opened Jun 1, 2022
The `OptimadeClient` should have a persistent cache on disk Open

client enhancement help wanted

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

Materials-Consortia/optimade-python-tools#1190 · 1 comment · Opened May 25, 2022
How to handle properties with domain specific prefixes? Open

needs discussion

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

Materials-Consortia/optimade-python-tools#1170 · Opened May 10, 2022
Validation of HAS ONLY queries Open

help wanted priority/medium suggestions validator

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 45/100

Materials-Consortia/optimade-python-tools#1013 · 1 reaction · Opened Dec 2, 2021
Add validator to check that response fields are taken into account for next link Open

validator

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

Materials-Consortia/optimade-python-tools#1012 · 1 reaction · Opened Dec 1, 2021
Add other minimal reference server test cases Open

server suggestions tests

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

Materials-Consortia/optimade-python-tools#1003 · Opened Nov 22, 2021
Create CI job to test `mike` Open

CI priority/low tests

Difficulty 3/5 1-2 days Newbie friendliness 38/100

Materials-Consortia/optimade-python-tools#975 · Opened Oct 18, 2021
Use more helpful package tools Open

CI enhancement ergonomics good first issue help wanted needs discussion priority/low question security suggestions

Difficulty 4/5 3-5 days Newbie friendliness 35/100

Materials-Consortia/optimade-python-tools#950 · Opened Sep 24, 2021
Validator error messages for features that report 501 Not Implemented are misleading Open

ergonomics priority/medium validator

Materials-Consortia/optimade-python-tools#946 · 2 comments · 1 assignee · Opened Sep 22, 2021
Support "minimized" data entries in `optimade.adapters` Open

adapters bug enhancement priority/medium suggestions

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 30/100

Materials-Consortia/optimade-python-tools#943 · 1 reaction · Opened Sep 10, 2021
Add a 'production' mode that circumvents pydantic validation with .construct() Open

server suggestions

Difficulty 5/5 Over a week Newbie friendliness 25/100

Materials-Consortia/optimade-python-tools#936 · 1 reaction · Opened Sep 3, 2021

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