dblp-webxml-parser

A lightweight Python library for parsing DBLP website XML pages.

⚠️ Note: This is NOT a parser for the DBLP XML database dump (dblp.xml.gz). This library parses the live XML pages served by the DBLP website (e.g., https://dblp.org/rec/xxx.xml).

Features

• 🔍 RecordPageParser - Parse publication record pages (https://dblp.org/rec/xxx.xml)
• 👤 PersonPageParser - Parse author/person pages (https://dblp.org/pid/xxx.xml)
• 📚 VenuePageParser - Parse venue pages (https://dblp.org/db/xxx/index.xml)
• 🪶 Zero dependencies - Uses only Python standard library
• 🐍 Python 3.10+ - Modern Python with type hints

Installation

pip install dblp-webxml-parser

Quick Start

Parse a Publication Record

import urllib.request
from dblp_webxml_parser import RecordPageParser

# Fetch and parse a record page
url = "https://dblp.org/rec/conf/cvpr/HeZRS16.xml"
with urllib.request.urlopen(url) as response:
    xml_text = response.read().decode("utf-8")

record = RecordPageParser(xml_text)
print(f"Title: {record.title}")
print(f"Year: {record.year}")
print(f"Type: {record.type}")
print(f"Key: {record.key}")
print(f"Authors: {[a.name for a in record.authors]}")

Parse a Person Page

from dblp_webxml_parser import PersonPageParser

# Parse a person page
person = PersonPageParser(xml_text)
print(f"Name: {person.name}")
print(f"PID: {person.pid}")
print(f"Publications: {len(list(person.publications))}")

# Iterate over publications
for pub in person.publications:
    print(f"  - {pub.title} ({pub.year})")

Parse a Venue Page

from dblp_webxml_parser import VenuePageParser

# Parse a venue page (conference/journal)
venue = VenuePageParser(xml_text)
print(f"Venue: {venue.title}")

# Get all publications in this venue
for pub in venue.publications:
    print(f"  - {pub.title}")

API Reference

RecordPageParser

Parses record pages from https://dblp.org/rec/xxx.xml.

RecordAuthor

Author information from a record.

PersonPageParser

Parses person pages from https://dblp.org/pid/xxx.xml.

VenuePageParser

Parses venue pages from https://dblp.org/db/xxx/index.xml.

Comparison with Other Tools

License

MIT License - see LICENSE for details.