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import settings
import requests
import pandas as pd
import json


    

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# Try to get a bigger sample.
r = requests.get('http://api.plos.org/search?q=subject:"biotechnology"&start=0&rows=500&api_key={%s}&wt=json' % settings.PLOS_KEY).json()
len(r['response']['docs'])


    

    
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500

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with open('biotech500.json', 'wb') as fp:
    json.dump(r, fp)