scholarly

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

THIS FORK ATTEMPTS TO FIX CURRENT ISSUES WITH THE PRIMARY FORK. DO NOT EXPECT IT TO WORK.

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 github:

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

or clone the package using git:

git clone https://github.com/OleAd/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.