Is it possible to search Scopus API between certain coverDates?

Question

I'm trying to create an application that lists research article entries from Scopus between two set dates (and does things with them - irrelevant for the current question). As I understand it, there is a "date" param that can be added to the search address for the Scopus API, but that can only be used for years (?). Every entry in Scopus however comes with a coverDate, which includes month and day. However, I am unable to work out how to restrict results to a specified coverDate period.

Of course, I can always retrieve all entries from the years that the period covers and then do the filtering in the app. However, that generates a lot of redundancy, so would be good to not use that work-around.

Have tried different Y-m-d formats for the &date param without success, as well as the pubyear query. I have now also tried to add PUBDATETXT() to the query, where I add several months (March+2022+OR+April+2022 etc), but Scopus interprets that as journals that have several of the dates as their coverdate.

Answer 1

Try something like:

?query=ISSN(2376-6662) OR ISSN(2330-5517) AND PUBYEAR > 2018 AND PUBYEAR < 2023

Source: https://dev.elsevier.com/data-fetcher-resources/DataFetcherManual_7_4_3.pdf

Answer 2

I was looking for the answer to the same question, and the following was my solution on how to include the year in my search:

Below is an example to search all articles with query= "dry reforming of methane" and published in 2019:

'https://api.elsevier.com/content/search/sciencedirect?start=800&count=100&query=dry reforming of methane&date=2019&apiKey=(--)&insttoken=(--)'

OR for multiple years:

'https://api.elsevier.com/content/search/sciencedirect?start=800&count=100&query=dry reforming of methane&date=2019-2020&apiKey=(--)&insttoken=(--)'

Reference: https://dev.elsevier.com/documentation/SCOPUSSearchAPI.wadl