Python module for fetching NCBI id for a list of species I have a list of scientific names of species. Is there a python module that can fetch NCBI taxonomy IDs?
Biopython has an efetch frontend.

from Bio import Entrez
Entrez.email = "michaelg@example.ac.uk" 
handle = Entrez.efetch(db="nucleotide", id="KR052012.1", rettype="gb", retmode="text")
print(handle.read())




OUT

LOCUS       KR052012               10714 bp    RNA     linear   VRL 09-MAY-2015
DEFINITION  Dengue virus strain Hb33/CHN/2014, complete genome.
ACCESSION   KR052012
VERSION     KR052012.1
KEYWORDS
.... etc

You will likely need to perform an EFetch search and then extract out the accession numbers for import (as done above)