Scholarly Publications Fetcher

The scholarly_publications package provides an easy-to-use interface for fetching publication data from Google Scholar. It allows users to retrieve detailed information about an author's publications, including titles, publication years, links, and citation counts. This package is designed for academics, researchers, and anyone interested in programmatically analyzing scholarly publication data.

Installation

To install scholarly_publications, use the following pip command in your terminal:

pip install scholarly_publications

Usage

Using the CLI (Command Line Interface)

scholarly_publications can be easily used via its command-line interface. Here are some examples:

Fetch all publications for a given author ID:

scholarly_publications <author_id>

Fetch a specific number of publications for a given author ID:

scholarly_publications <author_id> --max=<number_of_publications>

Sort results by pubdate/cited:

scholarly_publications <author_id> --sortby=<pubdate/cited>

Using as a Python Package

You can also use scholarly_publications directly in your Python code. Here's how:

from scholarly_publications import fetch_publications

# Fetch all publications for a given author ID
publications = fetch_publications('<author_id>')

# Fetch a specific number of publications for a given author ID
publications = fetch_publications('<author_id>', max_publications=<number_of_publications>)

# Fetch all publications for a given author ID and sort by pubdate/cited
publications = fetch_publications('<author_id>', sortby='<pubdate/cited>')

print(publications)

Contributing

We welcome contributions to scholarly_publications! If you have suggestions for improvements, please open an issue or a pull request.

Status

License

scholarly_publications is released under the MIT License. See the LICENSE file for more details.