GoogleScholarReport 0.1.0

Bibliographic capture system for non-scrapping data sources

Google Scholar Report

Description

Google scholar report is a tool for collect data from google scholar profiles and store it with metadata for each scientific paper. This tool have three main forms of use: generic, authenticated and admin; which difer in amount and cuality of metadata results. Default output is xlsx.

Usage from python-cli

Installation Package

$pip install GoogleScholarReport

For the firts option of use (generic), issue:

>>> from GoogleScholarReport import collector
>>> collector.gsr('url_to_google_scholar_profile', ouput='json')

For the second option of use (user authenticate):

>>> from GoogleScholarReport import collector
>>> collector.gsr('url_to_google_scholar_profile',email='user_email_google_scholar',password='pass_user_gs',' ouput='json')

Finally, for admin mode, issue:

>>> from GoogleScholarReport import collector
>>> collector.gsr('url_to_google_scholar_profile',email='user_email_google_scholar',password='pass_user_gs', ouput='some_ouput(csv,json)',admin=True)

Usage from comman-line

From comman line, this tool have three main forms of use: generic, authenticated and admin; which difer in amount and cuality of metadata results.

For the firts option of use (generic), issue:

python3 collector.py "url_for_the_google_scholar_profile"

The above option return one xlsx file report in the current working directory with the following metadata:

'title', 'author', 'journal', 'volume', 'number','pages', 'year', 'cite_id', 'cites', 'TitleU'.

If you want the output in csv or json format agregate the bellow flag and the desire ouput format, for instance:

python3 collector.py "url_for_the_google_scholar_profile" --output csv

For the second option of use (user authenticate):

python3 collector.py "url_for_the_google_scholar_profile" --email <email> --password <password>

This return one xlsx file report in the current working directory with the following metadata:

'cite_id', 'cites', 'publisher', 'year', 'pages', 'number', 'volume', 'journal', 'author', 'title','ENTRYTYPE', 'ID', 'school', 'booktitle', 'organization', 'note','month', 'institution'

Finally, for admin mode, issue:

python3 collector.py "url_for_the_google_scholar_profile" --email <email> --password <password> --admin

This return by default an xlsx file with the same metadata that option two plus one fiedl 'bibtex'.

In general this commanline tool have the following form:

python3 collector.py "url_for_the_google_scholar_profile" --email <user_email> --password <password> --output <format> --admin