generated: '2026-09-06'
method: searched
source: >-
  https://docs.dimensions.ai/dsl/api.html + registry metadata from
  pypi.org/pypi/dimcli/json and registry.npmjs.org
provider: Dimensions
providerId: dimensions
description: >-
  First-party and third-party client libraries for the Dimensions Analytics API
  (DSL). Digital Science publishes two official packages: the dimcli Python
  client/CLI and the Dimensions Analytics MCP server. Versions and publication
  dates were read from each registry's metadata endpoint on 2026-09-06.
packages:
- name: dimcli
  registry: pypi
  url: https://pypi.org/project/dimcli/
  language: python
  official: true
  version: '1.8'
  published: '2026-07-10'
  license: MIT
  repository: https://github.com/digital-science/dimcli
  releases: 115
  description: >-
    Python client and interactive CLI for the Dimensions Analytics API. Handles
    the /api/auth token exchange, DSL query submission, pagination, and pandas
    dataframe conversion. Ships the `dimcli` terminal console.
  source: https://pypi.org/pypi/dimcli/json
- name: '@digital-science-dsl/dimensions-analytics-mcp'
  registry: npm
  url: https://www.npmjs.com/package/@digital-science-dsl/dimensions-analytics-mcp
  language: typescript
  official: true
  version: 1.4.1
  published: '2026-09-06'
  license: MIT
  repository: https://github.com/digital-science/dimensions-analytics-mcp
  releases: 15
  binaries:
  - dimensions-analytics-mcp
  - dimensions-analytics-mcp-http
  description: >-
    Dimensions Analytics MCP server. Local stdio MCP server (Node.js 20+) that
    exposes 28 tools over the Dimensions DSL API. First published 2026-06-18.
  source: https://registry.npmjs.org/@digital-science-dsl/dimensions-analytics-mcp
third_party:
- name: dimensionsR
  registry: cran
  url: https://cran.r-project.org/package=dimensionsR
  language: r
  official: false
  version: 0.0.3
  published: '2022-02-07'
  repository: https://github.com/massimoaria/dimensionsR
  description: >-
    Community R package for gathering bibliographic data through the Dimensions
    API and DSL. Listed by Dimensions under "Third-party Libraries and Tools".
  source: https://crandb.r-pkg.org/dimensionsR
- name: rdimensions
  registry: github
  url: https://github.com/nicholasmfraser/rdimensions
  language: r
  official: false
  version: null
  published: null
  note: >-
    Community R client listed in the Dimensions docs. Not published to CRAN, so
    no registry metadata endpoint answers for it — checked, nothing to record.
  source: https://docs.dimensions.ai/dsl/api.html
- name: sidewall
  registry: github
  url: https://github.com/caltechlibrary/sidewall
  language: python
  official: false
  version: null
  published: null
  note: >-
    Community Python object layer over the Dimensions API, listed in the
    Dimensions docs. pypi.org/pypi/sidewall/json returned no package record on
    2026-09-06 — checked, nothing to record.
  source: https://docs.dimensions.ai/dsl/api.html