dblp-webxml-parser 0.1.0

A lightweight parser for DBLP website XML pages (record, person, venue pages), not the database dump.

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.

Property	Type	Description
key	str | None	DBLP paper key
type	str	Publication type (article, inproceedings, etc.)
title	str | None	Publication title
year	int | None	Publication year
month	int | None	Publication month
authors	Iterator[RecordAuthor]	Authors iterator
venue	str | None	Venue name (journal/booktitle/series)
venue_type	str | None	Venue type (journal/proceedings/book)
journal	str | None	Journal name
booktitle	str | None	Book/proceedings title
volume	str | None	Volume number
number	str | None	Issue number
pages	str | None	Page range
ees	Iterator[str]	Electronic edition URLs
url	str | None	DBLP URL
crossref	str | None	Crossref key

RecordAuthor

Author information from a record.

Property	Type	Description
name	str | None	Author name
pid	str | None	DBLP person ID
orcid	str | None	ORCID identifier

PersonPageParser

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

Property	Type	Description
pid	str | None	DBLP person ID
name	str | None	Primary name
names	Iterator[str]	All name variants
publications	Iterator[RecordParser]	Publications iterator

VenuePageParser

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

Property	Type	Description
title	str | None	Venue title
publications	Iterator[RecordParser]	Publications iterator

Comparison with Other Tools

Tool	Purpose
dblp-webxml-parser (this)	Parse live XML pages from DBLP website
dblp-parser	Parse the DBLP XML database dump file

License

MIT License - see LICENSE for details.