History as Data Science

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Welcome to the History Lab API’s documentation!

The History Lab focuses on digitizing historical documents and turning them into a format more amenable to the tools of modern data analysis. As part of this, the History Lab has compiled a database of more than 3 million declassified historical documents.

Traversing any large database of this sort can be tedious though. histlabapi is a Python library that aims to solve this, making it easier for users to access data from the History Lab’s database by wrapping around the History Lab’s API.

Installation

Installation is quite straightforward with pip. This package is only compatible with Python 3.9+ due to its usage of the requests dependency and its reliance on sphinx to generate its documentation.

$ pip install histlabapi

Contents:

• Home
• Database Guide
  • Document Collections
  • Document Fields
• Usage
  • Installation and Setup
  • Overview Functions
    • List Collections
    • Entity Overview
  • Search Functions
    • Search by text
    • Search by entity
    • Find Entity ID
    • Search by date
    • Search by document ID
• Changelog
  • v0.1.1
  • v0.1.0
• Support
  • Contact
  • Github
  • License
  • Credits
• Code of Conduct
  • Our Pledge
  • Our Standards
  • Our Responsibilities
  • Scope
  • Enforcement
  • Attribution