NIST_Kinetics / nist_kinetics_api.py
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Add NIST kinetics Gradio app with API and requirements
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from __future__ import annotations
import os
import re
from enum import Enum
from typing import List, Optional
from urllib.parse import urljoin
import requests
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup, NavigableString, Tag
from fastapi import FastAPI, HTTPException
from fastapi.concurrency import run_in_threadpool
from pydantic import BaseModel, Field
class FieldName(str, Enum):
"""Fields exposed by the NIST advanced search form."""
reactants = "reactants"
products = "products"
rxn_order = "rxn_order"
ref_rxn_reactants = "ref_rxn_reactants"
ref_rxn_products = "ref_rxn_products"
ref_rxn_order = "ref_rxn_order"
t_low = "t_low"
t_high = "t_high"
p_low = "p_low"
p_high = "p_high"
bath_gas = "bath_gas"
squib = "kinetics.squib"
class Relation(str, Enum):
"""Comparison operators supported by NIST."""
equals = "="
not_equals = "!=" # HTML also exposes "<>" which NIST treats the same
contains = "~*"
not_contains = "!~*"
lt = "<"
lte = "<="
gte = ">="
gt = ">"
class LogicalOperator(str, Enum):
and_ = "and"
or_ = "or"
class LeftParenthesis(str, Enum):
none = ""
single = "("
double = "(("
class RightParenthesis(str, Enum):
none = ""
single = ")"
double = "))"
class Category(int, Enum):
any = 0
review = 1
experiment = 2
theory = 3
MAX_FIELDS = 5
SUMMARY_HEADER = "Reaction"
class SearchFilter(BaseModel):
field: FieldName = Field(default=FieldName.reactants, description="Field to query")
relation: Relation = Field(default=Relation.contains, description="Comparison operator")
value: str = Field(..., min_length=0, description="Text entered into the NIST form field")
boolean: LogicalOperator | None = Field(
default=LogicalOperator.and_,
description="Boolean operator to join this filter with the previous one. Ignored for the first row.",
)
left_parenthesis: LeftParenthesis = Field(default=LeftParenthesis.none)
right_parenthesis: RightParenthesis = Field(default=RightParenthesis.none)
class SearchRequest(BaseModel):
filters: List[SearchFilter] = Field(
default_factory=list,
min_length=1,
max_length=MAX_FIELDS,
description="Up to five filter rows mirroring the NIST form layout.",
)
decomposition_only: bool = Field(default=False, description="Populate the `decomp` checkbox on the site.")
category: Category = Field(default=Category.any, description="Optional category restriction.")
units: str | None = Field(
default=None,
description="Optional string passed through to the hidden Units field (rarely needed).",
)
class ReactionSummary(BaseModel):
record_count: int
reaction: str
detail_url: str
class SearchResponse(BaseModel):
result_count: int
results: List[ReactionSummary]
class ReactionDetailRequest(BaseModel):
detail_url: str = Field(
...,
description="Absolute or relative URL returned by the /api/search endpoint (e.g. /kinetics/ReactionSearch?...).",
)
class RateExpressionUnits(BaseModel):
first_order: Optional[str] = None
second_order: Optional[str] = None
third_order: Optional[str] = None
class PhysicalUnits(BaseModel):
energy: Optional[str] = None
molecular: Optional[str] = None
pressure: Optional[str] = None
temperature: Optional[str] = None
base_volume: Optional[str] = None
reference_temperature: Optional[str] = None
evaluation_temperature: Optional[str] = None
class KineticsRecord(BaseModel):
section: Optional[str] = Field(None, description="Section heading such as Theory or Experiment.")
dataset_id: Optional[str] = None
squib: Optional[str] = None
squib_url: Optional[str] = None
temperature_range: Optional[str] = None
pre_exponential_factor: Optional[str] = None
temperature_exponent: Optional[str] = None
activation_energy: Optional[str] = None
rate_at_298: Optional[str] = None
reaction_order: Optional[str] = None
class ReactionDetail(BaseModel):
title: Optional[str]
rate_expression: Optional[str]
rate_expression_units: RateExpressionUnits | None
physical_units: PhysicalUnits | None
datasets: List[KineticsRecord]
class NistKineticsClient:
"""
Thin wrapper that mirrors the public HTML form exposed on https://kinetics.nist.gov.
The official site does not provide a documented JSON API. This class assembles the same payload
the browser would send, performs the POST, and parses the resulting HTML.
"""
BASE_URL = "https://kinetics.nist.gov/kinetics/"
SEARCH_ENDPOINT = "Search.jsp"
def __init__(self, timeout: int = 30) -> None:
self.timeout = timeout
self.session = requests.Session()
self.session.headers.update(
{
"User-Agent": (
"Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) "
"AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) "
"Chrome/124.0.0.0 Safari/537.36"
),
"Accept": "text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8",
"Accept-Language": "en-US,en;q=0.9",
}
)
def search(self, request: SearchRequest) -> List[ReactionSummary]:
payload = self._build_payload(request)
html = self._post(self.SEARCH_ENDPOINT, payload)
return self._parse_search_results(html)
def fetch_reaction_detail(self, detail_url: str) -> ReactionDetail:
sanitized_url = self._sanitize_url(detail_url)
html = self._get_absolute(sanitized_url)
return self._parse_reaction_detail(html, sanitized_url)
def _post(self, endpoint: str, payload: dict[str, str]) -> str:
response = self.session.post(urljoin(self.BASE_URL, endpoint), data=payload, timeout=self.timeout)
response.raise_for_status()
return response.text
def _get_absolute(self, url: str) -> str:
absolute_url = urljoin(self.BASE_URL, url)
response = self.session.get(absolute_url, timeout=self.timeout)
response.raise_for_status()
return response.text
def _build_payload(self, request: SearchRequest) -> dict[str, str]:
payload: dict[str, str] = {
"doc": "SearchForm",
"type": "java",
"database": "kinetics",
"numberOfFields": str(MAX_FIELDS),
"category": str(int(request.category.value)),
}
if request.units:
payload["Units"] = request.units
if request.decomposition_only:
payload["decomp"] = "true"
filters = request.filters
for idx in range(MAX_FIELDS):
human_index = idx + 1
boolean_key = f"boolean{human_index}"
lp_key = f"lp{human_index}"
field_key = f"field{human_index}"
relate_key = f"relate{human_index}"
text_key = f"text{human_index}"
rp_key = f"rp{human_index}"
if idx < len(filters):
view = filters[idx]
payload[boolean_key] = "" if idx == 0 else (view.boolean.value if view.boolean else "and")
payload[lp_key] = self._format_parenthesis(view.left_parenthesis)
payload[field_key] = view.field.value
payload[relate_key] = view.relation.value
payload[text_key] = view.value
payload[rp_key] = self._format_parenthesis(view.right_parenthesis)
else:
payload[boolean_key] = "" if idx == 0 else "and"
payload[lp_key] = " "
payload[field_key] = FieldName.reactants.value
payload[relate_key] = Relation.equals.value
payload[text_key] = ""
payload[rp_key] = " "
return payload
@staticmethod
def _format_parenthesis(choice: LeftParenthesis | RightParenthesis) -> str:
return choice.value if choice.value else " "
def _parse_search_results(self, html: str) -> List[ReactionSummary]:
soup = BeautifulSoup(html, "html.parser")
table = None
intro = soup.find(string=lambda text: isinstance(text, str) and "Click on a link in the table" in text)
if intro:
if isinstance(intro, NavigableString):
intro_parent = intro.parent
else:
intro_parent = intro
table = intro_parent.find_next("table")
if not table:
table = self._find_table_with_headers(soup, ["Records", SUMMARY_HEADER])
if not table:
# When 0 records are returned, no table is rendered.
return []
summaries: List[ReactionSummary] = []
for row in table.find_all("tr")[1:]:
cells = row.find_all("td")
if len(cells) < 3:
continue
count_text = cells[0].get_text(strip=True)
match = re.search(r"(\d+)", count_text)
record_count = int(match.group(1)) if match else 0
anchor = cells[0].find("a")
href = anchor["href"] if anchor and anchor.has_attr("href") else None
detail_url = self._sanitize_url(href) if href else ""
reaction_str = cells[-1].get_text(" ", strip=True)
summaries.append(
ReactionSummary(record_count=record_count, reaction=reaction_str, detail_url=detail_url)
)
return summaries
def _parse_reaction_detail(self, html: str, source_url: str) -> ReactionDetail:
soup = BeautifulSoup(html, "html.parser")
title_div = soup.find("div", attrs={"align": "center"})
title = title_div.get_text(" ", strip=True) if title_div else None
rate_expression = None
for bold in soup.find_all("b"):
text = bold.get_text(strip=True)
if text.startswith("Rate expression"):
rate_expression = text.replace("\xa0", " ")
break
rate_units = self._parse_rate_units(soup)
physical_units = self._parse_physical_units(soup)
datasets = self._parse_kinetics_table(soup)
return ReactionDetail(
title=title,
rate_expression=rate_expression,
rate_expression_units=rate_units,
physical_units=physical_units,
datasets=datasets,
)
@staticmethod
def _parse_rate_units(soup: BeautifulSoup) -> RateExpressionUnits | None:
anchor = None
for bold in soup.find_all("b"):
if "Rate expression units" in bold.get_text():
anchor = bold
break
if not anchor:
return None
values: dict[str, str] = {}
current_label: Optional[str] = None
for node in anchor.next_siblings:
if isinstance(node, Tag) and node.name == "b":
break
if isinstance(node, Tag) and node.name == "hr":
break
if isinstance(node, NavigableString):
text = str(node).strip()
else:
text = node.get_text(" ", strip=True)
if not text:
continue
if text.endswith(":"):
current_label = text[:-1]
continue
if current_label:
values[current_label] = text
current_label = None
if not values:
return None
return RateExpressionUnits(
first_order=values.get("First order"),
second_order=values.get("Second order"),
third_order=values.get("Third order"),
)
@staticmethod
def _parse_physical_units(soup: BeautifulSoup) -> PhysicalUnits | None:
table = None
for candidate in soup.find_all("table"):
if candidate.find(string=lambda text: isinstance(text, str) and "Energy Units" in text):
table = candidate
break
if not table:
return None
fields = {}
for row in table.find_all("tr"):
cells = row.find_all("td")
if len(cells) < 7:
continue
label_a = cells[0].get_text(strip=True)
value_a = cells[2].get_text(strip=True)
label_b = cells[4].get_text(strip=True)
value_b = cells[6].get_text(strip=True)
if label_a:
fields[label_a] = value_a
if label_b:
fields[label_b] = value_b
if not fields:
return None
return PhysicalUnits(
energy=fields.get("Energy Units"),
molecular=fields.get("Molecular Units"),
pressure=fields.get("Pressure Units"),
temperature=fields.get("Temperature Units"),
base_volume=fields.get("Base Volume Unit"),
reference_temperature=fields.get("Reference Temperature"),
evaluation_temperature=fields.get("Evaluation Temperature"),
)
def _parse_kinetics_table(self, soup: BeautifulSoup) -> List[KineticsRecord]:
table = self._find_table_with_headers(soup, ["Squib", "Temp [K]"])
if not table:
return []
datasets: List[KineticsRecord] = []
current_section: Optional[str] = None
for row in table.find_all("tr")[1:]:
header_cells = row.find_all("th")
if header_cells:
continue
data_cells = row.find_all("td")
if not data_cells:
continue
if data_cells[0].get("colspan"):
current_section = data_cells[0].get_text(" ", strip=True)
continue
if len(data_cells) < 15:
continue
dataset_id = self._find_hidden_value(data_cells[0], prefix="id")
squib_cell = data_cells[2]
squib_link = squib_cell.find("a")
squib_text = squib_link.get_text(strip=True) if squib_link else squib_cell.get_text(strip=True)
squib_url = self._sanitize_url(squib_link["href"]) if squib_link and squib_link.has_attr("href") else None
record = KineticsRecord(
section=current_section,
dataset_id=dataset_id,
squib=squib_text,
squib_url=squib_url,
temperature_range=data_cells[4].get_text(strip=True) or None,
pre_exponential_factor=data_cells[6].get_text(strip=True) or None,
temperature_exponent=data_cells[8].get_text(strip=True) or None,
activation_energy=data_cells[10].get_text(strip=True) or None,
rate_at_298=data_cells[12].get_text(strip=True) or None,
reaction_order=data_cells[14].get_text(strip=True) or None,
)
datasets.append(record)
return datasets
@staticmethod
def _find_hidden_value(cell, prefix: str) -> Optional[str]:
for hidden in cell.find_all("input"):
name = hidden.get("name") or ""
if name.startswith(prefix):
return hidden.get("value")
return None
@staticmethod
def _sanitize_url(url: Optional[str]) -> str:
if not url:
return ""
cleaned = re.sub(r";jsessionid=[^?]*", "", url)
return urljoin(NistKineticsClient.BASE_URL, cleaned)
@staticmethod
def _find_table_with_headers(soup: BeautifulSoup, headers: List[str]):
required = [header.strip() for header in headers]
for table in soup.find_all("table"):
th_texts = [th.get_text(strip=True) for th in table.find_all("th")]
if all(req in th_texts for req in required):
return table
return None
client = NistKineticsClient()
app = FastAPI(
title="Unofficial NIST Kinetics API",
description=(
"A thin REST wrapper around the public NIST Chemical Kinetics search form. "
"All data is fetched live from kinetics.nist.gov; please cache results and respect their terms of use."
),
version="1.0.0",
)
@app.get("/health")
def health() -> dict[str, str]:
return {"status": "ok"}
@app.post("/api/search", response_model=SearchResponse)
async def search(request: SearchRequest) -> SearchResponse:
try:
results = await run_in_threadpool(client.search, request)
return SearchResponse(result_count=len(results), results=results)
except requests.HTTPError as exc:
raise HTTPException(status_code=exc.response.status_code, detail=str(exc)) from exc
except Exception as exc: # pragma: no cover - defensive
raise HTTPException(status_code=502, detail=f"Failed to query NIST: {exc}") from exc
@app.post("/api/reaction-detail", response_model=ReactionDetail)
async def reaction_detail(request: ReactionDetailRequest) -> ReactionDetail:
try:
return await run_in_threadpool(client.fetch_reaction_detail, request.detail_url)
except requests.HTTPError as exc:
raise HTTPException(status_code=exc.response.status_code, detail=str(exc)) from exc
except Exception as exc: # pragma: no cover - defensive
raise HTTPException(status_code=502, detail=f"Failed to fetch reaction detail: {exc}") from exc
if __name__ == "__main__": # pragma: no cover
import uvicorn
port = int(os.environ.get("PORT", os.environ.get("HF_SPACE_PORT", 7860)))
uvicorn.run("nist_kinetics_api:app", host="0.0.0.0", port=port, reload=bool(os.environ.get("DEBUG")))