scholarly 0.2.1

Simple access to Google Scholar authors and citations

scholarly is a module that allows you to retrieve author and publication information from Google Scholar in a friendly, Pythonic way.

Usage

Because scholarly does not use an official API, no key is required. Simply:

import scholarly

print(next(scholarly.search_author('Steven A. Cholewiak')))

Methods

• search_author – Search for an author by name and return a generator of Author objects.

>>> search_query = scholarly.search_author('Manish Singh, Rutgers')
>>> print(next(search_query))
{'_filled': False,
 'affiliation': 'Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ',
 'citedby': 2463,
 'email': '@ruccs.rutgers.edu',
 'id': '9XRvM88AAAAJ',
 'interests': ['Human perception',
               'Computational Vision',
               'Cognitive Science'],
 'name': 'Manish Singh',
 'url_picture': '/citations/images/avatar_scholar_150.jpg'}

• search_keyword – Search by keyword and return a generator of Author objects.

>>> search_query = scholarly.search_keyword('Haptics')
>>> print(next(search_query))
{'_filled': False,
 'affiliation': 'Lamar University',
 'citedby': 21275,
 'email': '@lamar.edu',
 'id': 'N2ab6CAAAAAJ',
 'interests': ['CAD/CAM',
               'Haptics',
               'Medical Simulation',
               'GPU computing',
               'evolutionary computing'],
 'name': 'Weihang Zhu',
 'url_picture': '/citations/images/avatar_scholar_150.jpg'}

• search_pubs_query – Search for articles/publications and return generator of Publication objects.

>>> search_query = scholarly.search_pubs_query('Perception of physical stability and center of mass of 3D objects')
>>> print(next(search_query))
{'_filled': False,
 'bib': {'abstract': 'Humans can judge from vision alone whether an object '
                     'is physically stable or not. Such judgments allow '
                     'observers to predict the physical behavior of '
                     'objects, and hence to guide their motor actions. We '
                     'investigated the visual estimation of physical '
                     'stability of 3-D  ...',
         'author': 'SA Cholewiak and RW Fleming and M Singh',
         'eprint': 'http://www.journalofvision.org/content/15/2/13.full',
         'title': 'Perception of physical stability and center of mass of '
                  '3-D objects',
         'url': 'http://www.journalofvision.org/content/15/2/13.short'},
 'source': 'scholar',
 'url_scholarbib': '/scholar.bib?q=info:K8ZpoI6hZNoJ:scholar.google.com/&output=citation&hl=en&ct=citation&cd=0'}

Example

Here’s a quick example demonstrating how to retrieve an author’s profile then retrieve the titles of the papers that cite his most popular (cited) paper.

>>> # Retrieve the author's data, fill-in, and print
>>> search_query = scholarly.search_author('Steven A Cholewiak')
>>> author = next(search_query).fill()
>>> print(author)

>>> # Print the titles of the author's publications
>>> print([pub.bib['title'] for pub in author.publications])

>>> # Take a closer look at the first publication
>>> pub = author.publications[0].fill()
>>> print(pub)

>>> # Which papers cited that publication?
>>> print([citation.bib['title'] for citation in pub.get_citedby()])

Installation

Use pip to install from pypi:

pip install scholarly

or pip to install from github:

pip install git+https://github.com/OrganicIrradiation/scholarly.git

or clone the package using git:

git clone https://github.com/OrganicIrradiation/scholarly.git

Requirements

Requires arrow, Beautiful Soup, bibtexparser, and requests[security].

Changes

Note that because of the nature of web scraping, this project will be in perpetual alpha.

v0.2.1

• Renamed Publication function citedby() to get_citedby(). New Publication attribute citedby, which just gives the number of citations an article has. Also updated test.py.

v0.2

• Python 2/3 compatibility. No longer using datetime-util and moved the datetime operations to arrow. Now using wheel format.

v0.1.5

• Exactly the same as v0.1.5, but had to bump the version because of a version mistakenly pushed to pypi that had a bad tarball url.

v0.1.4

• Moved over to requests. When Google requests a CAPTCHA, print a URL to the image (rehosted on postimage.org), and have the user confirm that this is being run interactively. Also explicitly request the ‘html.parser’ for BeautifulSoup. Includes a few small updates to test.py tests to account for updated citation contents and updates to the README. And finally, the pypi install should also now include requests[security].

v0.1.3

• Raise an exception when we receive a Bot Check. Reorganized test.py alphabetically and updated its test cases. Reorganized README. Added python-dateutil as installation requirement, for some reason it was accidentally omitted.

v0.1.2

• Now request HTTPS connection rather than HTTP and update test.py to account for a new “Zucker”. Also added information for the v0.1.1 revision.

v0.1.1

• Fixed an issue with multi-page Author results, author entries with no citations (which are rare, but do occur), and added some tests using unittest.

v0.1

• Initial release.

License

The original code that this project was forked from was released by Bello Chalmers under a WTFPL license. In keeping with this mentality, all code is released under the Unlicense.