Simple access to Google Scholar authors and citations
Project description
scholarly
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('Marty Banks, Berkeley')
>>> print(next(search_query))
{'_filled': False,
'affiliation': 'Professor of Vision Science, UC Berkeley',
'citedby': 17758,
'email': '@berkeley.edu',
'id': 'Smr99uEAAAAJ',
'interests': ['vision science', 'psychology', 'human factors', 'neuroscience'],
'name': 'Martin Banks',
'url_picture': 'https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=medium_photo&user=Smr99uEAAAAJ'}
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': 'Stanford University',
'citedby': 31731,
'email': '@cs.stanford.edu',
'id': '4arkOLcAAAAJ',
'interests': ['Robotics', 'Haptics', 'Human Motion Understanding'],
'name': 'Oussama Khatib',
'url_picture': 'https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=medium_photo&user=4arkOLcAAAAJ'}
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 objects (shown '
'in stereoscopically viewed rendered scenes) and how it '
'relates to visual estimates of their center of mass '
'(COM). In Experiment 1, observers viewed an object near '
'the edge of a table and adjusted its tilt to the '
'perceived critical angle, ie, the tilt angle at which '
'the object …',
'author': 'SA Cholewiak and RW Fleming and M Singh',
'eprint': 'http://jov.arvojournals.org/article.aspx?articleid=2213254',
'title': 'Perception of physical stability and center of mass of 3-D '
'objects',
'url': 'http://jov.arvojournals.org/article.aspx?articleid=2213254'},
'citedby': 14,
'id_scholarcitedby': '15736880631888070187',
'source': 'scholar',
'url_scholarbib': 'https://scholar.googleusercontent.com/scholar.bib?q=info:K8ZpoI6hZNoJ:scholar.google.com/&output=citation&scisig=AAGBfm0AAAAAXGSbUf67ybEFA3NEyJzRusXRbR441api&scisf=4&ct=citation&cd=0&hl=en'}
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].
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.
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