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Nov 7, 2020 at 19:49 comment added Mr_Z I've updated my answer. The dotted format is not a problem of the API. It is just how jq is getting the keys from the JSON formatted result. stedolan.github.io/jq/manual/#Basicfilters gives you a basic overview of how to use jq.
Nov 7, 2020 at 19:46 history edited Mr_Z CC BY-SA 4.0
extend answer to get another field of the JSON response
Nov 7, 2020 at 16:58 comment added David Thanks again. I know it is bad form to ask supplementary questions, but could you possibly provide a link in your answer to the particular page in the API which describes the need to specify all of the four "dotted" terms. I went to ebi.ac.uk/proteins/api to try to find out how to construct a query to get the species (so I didn't have to ask) but must be looking in the wrong place. I can find an example XML for a protein under proteins/proteins that includes some of these terms, and various unpromising json thingies. NCBI provides intelligible APIs (or used to) — whereas EBI…
Nov 5, 2020 at 12:59 comment added Mr_Z Check this answer stackoverflow.com/a/6392271 for your tab problem.
Nov 5, 2020 at 12:52 vote accept David
Nov 5, 2020 at 12:52 comment added David Many thanks. Got this running. Only problem is that on OS X the \t tab escape does not work (it is apparently non-standard) and none of the answers here worked for me. However it is easy enough to insert a tab after the four-character PDB ID programmatically.
Nov 4, 2020 at 19:56 comment added Mr_Z sed should also be available for you. You can install jq and parallel with brew
Nov 4, 2020 at 19:53 history edited Mr_Z CC BY-SA 4.0
Extend answer and add another possible way for requesting the api
Nov 4, 2020 at 16:41 history answered Mr_Z CC BY-SA 4.0