🗞️Version Log

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Version 1.0.31 - 1st December 2025

  • Included a new API filter on /get_products to exclude products without a specific field (e.g. exclude_nulls=manufacturing

Version 1.0.30 - 18th November 2025

  • Expanded the generic materials database by including the newest ICE Database (V4.1) by Circular Ecology

Version 1.0.30 - 16th November 2025

  • Updated the unique_product_uuid_v2 filter behaviour on get_products to allow multiple uuids, comma-separated.

Version 1.0.29 - 12th November 2025

  • Updated the certificate_url field behavior for product APIs and CSVs. For security reasons, links will now trigger an automatic PDF download instead of displaying the file in the browser.

Version 1.0.28 - 4th September 2025

  • Added functionality to sort get_products results by proximity to a lat/long or a location (see more here)

  • Included "city" under get_product_filters and enabled filtering by the same field on get_products

    • Included a mapping dictionary to indicate cities under a country under get_product_filters Example: 'country_city_map': {'Algeria': [{'id': 1541, 'value': 'Bethioua'},...

Version 1.0.27 - 28th August 2025

Version 1.0.26 - 14th August 2025

Version 1.0.25 - 11th August 2025

  • Updated the Data Sources table under Generic Material Data to reflect the upload of the 2022 UK GHG Factors database.

Version 1.0.24 - 3rd August 2025

  • Updated the output fields under the Generic Material Data endpoint to reflect new fields:

    • linear_density, mass_per_piece, cross_sectional_area, mass_per_declared_unit

Version 1.0.23 - 8th July 2025

Version 1.0.22 - 26th June 2025

  • Updated data sources for generic materials endpoint to reflect the new MEP database generated by the 2050 Materials research team.

  • Improvements to the speed of get_product_filters endpoint

  • Introduced a new field under get_products called certificates with information on all available certificates on products (e.g. FSC, Datasheets, etc.). More information here.

Version 1.0.21 - 16th June 2025

  • get_product_filters and get_generic_material_filters now take filtering, to render dynamic dropdowns of the available fields within a response.

Version 1.0.20 - 7th May 2025

  • Added a new data source of generic material factors: EPA GHG Emission Factors Hub

  • Updated the Swiss KBOB database to Version 6.2

Version 1.0.19 - 30th April 2025

  • Added multiple filters on get_products and get_generic_materials endpoints

Version 1.0.18 - 18th April 2025

  • Note on documentation regarding name filtering when including special characters like + or &

Version 1.0.17 - 1st April 2025

  • Introduced the updated 2025 Timber Development dataset (link) into the generic materials endpoint.

Version 1.0.16 - 25th March 2025

  • Introduced the New Zealand GHG Database under the get_generic_materials endpoint

Version 1.0.15 - 17th March 2025

  • Introduced epd_operator field and filter on get_products

  • Introduced epd_operator field on get_best_match

Version 1.0.14 - 21st February 2025

Version 1.0.13 - 17th February 2025

  • Introduced data=mini filter on get_products and get_generic_materials

Version 1.0.12 - 11th February 2025

  • Expanded the generic materials database by including the Payette's Kaleidoscope assembly data (GWP Fossil for stages A1-A4).

Version 1.0.11 - 4th November 2024

  • Expanded the generic materials database by including the Australian National Greenhouse Accounts Factors (July 2023).

Version 1.0.10 - 29 October 2024

  • get_generic_materials endpoint now includes all the decimal points on carbon figures.

Version 1.0.9 - 25 September 2024

  • Expanded datasets under the get_generic_materials endpoint to include the 2050 Materials Structural Materials Dataset, which contains more detailed data for structural concrete mixes and timber.

Version 1.0.8 - 11 September 2024

  • Expanded datasets under the get_generic_materials endpoint to include the 2050 Materials Quantity Surveyor Dataset - 2024 Materials Database, which is used in the integration into CostX, and the 2024 Future Homes Materials Database

Version 1.0.7 - 10 September 2024

  • Expanded datasets under the get_generic_materials endpoint to include the 2024 UK National Statistics GHG factors and the New Zealand Environment Ministry - GHG Factors.

  • Speed improvements to the API

  • Minor bug fixes

Version 1.0.6 - 7 August 2024

  • Speed improvements for all endpoints

  • Expanded product types and material types for all data

  • Introduced get_generic_material_filters endpoint

  • Data sources expanded for get_generic_materials endpoint (Essex Policy)

Version 1.0.5 - 17 June 2024

  • Bug fixes on get_product endpoint

  • Data sources expanded for get_generic_materials endpoint

Version 1.0.4 - 27 May 2024

  • Introduced expiration filters for get_products endpoint

  • Logged methodology documentation for the embodied carbon benchmark tool

Version 1.0.3 - 20 May 2024

  • Introduced sort_by=material_name to render results alphabetically

  • Extended sort_by to source_uuid, product_type, material_type, data_source, and material_type for get_generic_materials and get_products

Version 1.0.2 - 29 April 2024

  • Added filters data_source, updated_after, updated_before, created_after, created_before, created_between, updated_between to the get_generic_materials endpoint

  • Added filters certificate_expires_before, certificate_expires_after, norm_price, compliances, updated_after, updated_before, created_after, created_before, created_between, updated_between, unique_product_uuid_v2 on get_products endpoint

  • Released the open-source Python Library aecdata

Version 1.0.1 - 17 April 2024

  • Added thickness, grey_energy_total, grey_energy_fabrication_total, grey_energy_recovery_fabrication, grey_energy_material_recovery_fabrication, grey_energy_elimination, created, updated to the get_generic_materials endpoint

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