# Given an experiment's accession SRX6711770, get its full information from the following link # https://www.ebi.ac.uk/ena/browser/api/xml/SRX6711770 import urllib.request def get_xml_for_experiment_id(eid): url = 'https://www.ebi.ac.uk/ena/browser/api/xml/%s' % (eid) content = '' with urllib.request.urlopen(url) as response: content = response.read() return content.decode('utf-8') if __name__ == '__main__': print(get_xml_for_experiment_id('SRX6711770'))