  Automated computational materials science frameworks rapidly generate large
quantities of materials data useful for accelerated materials design. We have
extended the data oriented AFLOW-repository API (Application-Program-Interface,
as described in Comput. Mater. Sci. 93, 178 (2014)) to enable programmatic
access to search queries. A URI-based search API (Uniform Resource Identifier)
is proposed for the construction of complex queries with the intent of allowing
the remote creation and retrieval of customized data sets. It is expected that
the new language AFLUX, acronym for Automatic Flow of LUX (light), will
facilitate the creation of remote search operations on the AFLOW.org set of
computational materials science data repositories.
