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# 🔍 chatnoir-api
Simple, type-safe access to the [ChatNoir](https://chatnoir.eu/) [search API](https://chatnoir.eu/doc/api/).
## Installation
```shell
pip install chatnoir-api
```
## Usage
```python
from chatnoir_api.v1 import search
api_key: str = "<API_KEY>"
results = search(api_key, "python library")
top10_results = results[:10]
print(top10_results)
result_1234 = results[1234]
print(result_1234)
```
## Citation
If you use this package, please cite the [paper](https://webis.de/publications.html#bevendorff_2018)
from the [ChatNoir](https://github.com/chatnoir-eu) authors.
You can use the following BibTeX information for citation:
```bibtex
@InProceedings{bevendorff:2018,
address = {Berlin Heidelberg New York},
author = {Janek Bevendorff and Benno Stein and Matthias Hagen and Martin Potthast},
booktitle = {Advances in Information Retrieval. 40th European Conference on IR Research (ECIR 2018)},
editor = {Leif Azzopardi and Allan Hanbury and Gabriella Pasi and Benjamin Piwowarski},
ids = {potthast:2018c,stein:2018c},
month = mar,
publisher = {Springer},
series = {Lecture Notes in Computer Science},
site = {Grenoble, France},
title = {{Elastic ChatNoir: Search Engine for the ClueWeb and the Common Crawl}},
year = 2018
}
```
## Development
To build and develop this package you need to install the `build` package:
```shell
pip install build
```
### Installation
Install package dependencies:
```shell
pip install -e .
```
### Testing
Install test dependencies:
```shell
pip install -e .[test]
```
Verify your changes against the test suite to verify.
```shell
flake8 chatnoir_api examples
pylint -E chatnoir_api examples
CHATNOIR_API_KEY="<API_KEY>" pytest chatnoir_api examples
```
Please also add tests for your newly developed code.
### Build wheels
Wheels for this package can be built by:
```shell
python -m build
```
## License
This repository is released under the [MIT license](LICENSE).