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cif2cell
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A tool to generate the geometrical setup for various electronic structure codes from a CIF (Crystallographic Information Framework) file. The code will generate the crystal structure for the primitive cell or the conventional cell.
For more, please visit the official `website <https://pypi.org/project/cif2cell/>`_.

The open question is from where to extract a cif-file. There are various databases online, where we recomment 

* `Materials project <https://next-gen.materialsproject.org/materials>`_
* `ICSD database <https://icsd.products.fiz-karlsruhe.de>`_


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