<p>In publications the GEO code is usually shared and not the BioProject/study code.</p>
<p>I want to get the BioProject/Study Accession code of a GEO dataset (to later download the data from ENA).<br />
I know that I can go to the website and see find it but I would like to automate the process.</p>
<p><a href="https://doi.org/doi:10.18129/B9.bioc.GEOquery" rel="nofollow noreferrer">GEOquery</a> didn't provide it, and the data doesn't seem to be available via <a href="ftp://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/geo/README.txt" rel="nofollow noreferrer">the FTP</a>.<br />
Is there a programmatic way to obtain it?</p>

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2023-04-28T12:41:07.730Z
This must be doable because it has an API here https://rdrr.io/bioc/GEOquery/api/ - which is exactly what is needed here
M__
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2023-04-29T23:29:43.260Z
Can you please explain more about why going to the website is not good enough? For a single GEO dataset, it would be quicker and easier to use the website.
gringer
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2023-05-02T10:05:43.997Z
Because I want to download the files from multiple GEO datasets and match the data with other information. The background history is that my group currently do not have a local copy of some data which I know was published in a paper, that paper has several GEOs and I want to download them and find which samples are from the missing data. 
I think I identified the relevant one, but I might have missed it and I want to have a solution for the future (I think this will happen more :( )
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Get BioProject code of a GEO dataset
# Get BioProject code of a GEO dataset

(Asked by: username_0 on 2023-04-28)

In publications the GEO code is usually shared and not the BioProject/study code.

I want to get the BioProject/Study Accession code of a GEO dataset (to later download the data from ENA).  
I know that I can go to the website and see find it but I would like to automate the process.

[GEOquery](https://doi.org/doi:10.18129/B9.bioc.GEOquery) didn't provide it, and the data doesn't seem to be available via [the FTP](ftp://ftp.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/geo/README.txt).  
Is there a programmatic way to obtain it?

**Tags:** public-databases, data-download, geo
> **Comments:**
> **username_1**: This must be doable because it has an API here https://rdrr.io/bioc/GEOquery/api/ - which is exactly what is needed here  
> **username_2**: Can you please explain more about why going to the website is not good enough? For a single GEO dataset, it would be quicker and easier to use the website.  
> **username_0**: Because I want to download the files from multiple GEO datasets and match the data with other information. The background history is that my group currently do not have a local copy of some data which I know was published in a paper, that paper has several GEOs and I want to download them and find which samples are from the missing data.  I think I identified the relevant one, but I might have missed it and I want to have a solution for the future (I think this will happen more :( )  

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