Quickstart

If you don’t have pip installed, see the pip install guide.

$ pip install ascl_net_scraper

>>> from rich.pretty import pprint # for pretty printing
>>> import ascl_net_scraper
>>> codes = ascl_net_scraper.scrape_index(5)
>>> pprint(codes[0]) # doctest: +ELLIPSIS
CodeRecord(
│   ascl_id=None,
│   title='2-DUST: Dust radiative transfer code',
│   credit=['Ueta, Toshiya'],
│   abstract='<p>...</p>',
│   details_url='https://ascl.net/1604.006'
)
>>> pprint(codes[0].get_details(), max_string=70) # doctest: +ELLIPSIS
DetailedCodeRecord(
│   ascl_id=None,
│   title='2-DUST: Dust radiative transfer code',
│   credit=['Ueta, Toshiya'],
│   abstract='<p>2-DUST is a general-purpose dust radiative transfer code for an axi'+319,
│   url='https://ascl.net/1604.006',
│   code_sites=['https://github.com/sundarjhu/2-DUST/'],
│   used_in=['https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2004ApJ...614..371M'],
│   described_in=['https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2003ApJ...586.1338U'],
│   bibcode='2016ascl.soft04006U',
│   preferred_citation_method='<p><a href="https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2003ApJ...586.1338U">htt'+58,
│   discuss_url='/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?t=33976',
│   views=...
)
>>> # "github" is a special computed attribute:
>>> codes[0].get_details().github
'https://github.com/sundarjhu/2-DUST/'