arxivabscraper

An ArXiV scraper to retrieve abstracts from given categories and date range.

Install

Use pip (or pip3 for python3):

$ pip install arxivabscraper

or download the source and use setup.py:

$ python setup.py install

or if you do not want to install the module, copy arxivabscraper.py into your working directory.

To update the module using pip:

pip install arxivabscraper --upgrade

Examples

You can directly use arxivabscraper in your scripts. Let's import arxivabscraper and create a scraper to fetch all preprints in condensed matter physics category from 2 May 2018 until 2 June 2020 (for other categories, see below):

import arxivabscraper
scraper = arxivabscraper.Scraper(category='physics:cond-mat', date_from='2018-05-02',date_until='2020-06-02')

Once we built an instance of the scraper, we can start the scraping:

output = scraper.scrape()

While scraper is running, it prints its status:

fetching up to  1000 records...
fetching up to  2000 records...
Got 503. Retrying after 30 seconds.
fetching up to  3000 records...
fetching is complete.

Finally you can save the output in your favorite format or readily convert it into a pandas dataframe:

import pandas as pd
cols = ('categories', 'abstract')
df = pd.DataFrame(output,columns=cols)

Categories

Here is a list of all categories available on ArXiv.

Contributing

Ideas/bugs/comments? Please open an issue or submit a pull request on Github.

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details.

Acknowledgments

This work is based on the arxivscraper from Mahdi Sadjadi (2017). arxivscraper: Zenodo. http://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.889853