MAST Data Catalog

This is the documentation for using the MAST data catalog. MAST stands for the Mega Ampere Spherical Tokamak. This site provides documentation for accessing historical data and meta data from MAST. Here you can find descriptions and examples of the how to use the different APIs and endpoints that we provide for accessing data from MAST.

Warning

This documentation and the underlying catalog are still under construction! As such, the API may currently change without warning.

Tutorials

Below are tutorial notebooks showing examples of how to query metadata and load data from the catalog.

Overview

• Quickstart
• Bulk Download

Tutorials

• Tutorial: Exploring Shot Metadata
• Tutorial: Accessing Data with Intake & S3

Examples

• Data Gallery
• EFIT Data
• Thomson Scattering Data

APIs

• REST API Examples
• GraphQL Examples

Metadata API References

Below are quick links to documentation for different API endpoints

• REST API documentation

• GraphQL API documentation

Tools Using the Catalog

• MAST-GPT - A custom Chat GPT using the OpenAPI description of endpoints of this service.

License

Except where otherwise noted, the data hosted in the archive, the contents of the metadata database, and the content of this site is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.