scholarly module¶
scholarly.py
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class
scholarly._scholarly.
_Scholarly
[source]¶ Bases:
object
Class that manages the API for scholarly
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bibtex
(object: scholarly.data_types.Publication) → str[source]¶ Returns a bibtex entry for a publication that has either Scholar source or citation source
Parameters: object (Publication) – The Publication object for the bibtex exportation
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citedby
(object: scholarly.data_types.Publication) → scholarly.publication_parser._SearchScholarIterator[source]¶ Searches Google Scholar for other articles that cite this Publication and returns a Publication generator.
Parameters: object (Publication) – The Publication object for the bibtex exportation
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fill
(object: dict, sections=[], sortby: str = 'citedby', publication_limit: int = 0) → scholarly.data_types.Author[source]¶ Fills the object according to its type. If the container type is Author it will fill the additional author fields If it is Publication it will fill it accordingly.
Parameters: - object (Author or Publication) – the Author or Publication object that needs to get filled
- sections (list) – the sections that the user wants filled for an Author object. This can be: [‘basics’, ‘indices’, ‘counts’, ‘coauthors’, ‘publications’]
- sortby (string) – if the object is an author, select the order of the citations in the author page. Either by ‘citedby’ or ‘year’. Defaults to ‘citedby’.
- publication_limit (int) – if the object is an author, select the max number of publications you want you want to fill for the author. Defaults to no limit.
Search google scholar for related articles to a specific publication.
Parameters: object (Publication) – Publication object used to get the related articles
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pprint
(object: scholarly.data_types.Author) → None[source]¶ Pretty print an Author or Publication container object
Parameters: object (Author or Publication) – Publication or Author container object
Search by author name and return a generator of Author objects
Example:: search_query = scholarly.search_author('Marty Banks, Berkeley') scholarly.pprint(next(search_query))
Output:: {'affiliation': 'Professor of Vision Science, UC Berkeley', 'citedby': 21074, 'email_domain': '@berkeley.edu', 'filled': False, 'interests': ['vision science', 'psychology', 'human factors', 'neuroscience'], 'name': 'Martin Banks', 'scholar_id': 'Smr99uEAAAAJ', 'source': 'SEARCH_AUTHOR_SNIPPETS', 'url_picture': 'https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=medium_photo&user=Smr99uEAAAAJ'}
Search by custom URL and return a generator of Author objects URL should be of the form ‘/citation?q=…’
Parameters: url (string) – url for the custom author url
Search by author id and return a single Author object :param sortby: select the order of the citations in the author page. Either by ‘citedby’ or ‘year’. Defaults to ‘citedby’. :type sortby: string :param publication_limit: if the object is an author, select the max number of publications you want you want to fill for the author. Defaults to no limit. :type publication_limit: int
Example:: search_query = scholarly.search_author_id('EmD_lTEAAAAJ') scholarly.pprint(search_query)
Output:: {'affiliation': 'Institut du radium, University of Paris', 'filled': False, 'interests': [], 'name': 'Marie Skłodowska-Curie', 'scholar_id': 'EmD_lTEAAAAJ', 'source': 'AUTHOR_PROFILE_PAGE'}
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search_citedby
(publication_id: int, **kwargs)[source]¶ Searches by Google Scholar publication id and returns a generator of Publication objects.
Parameters: publication_id (int) – Google Scholar publication id For the remaining parameters, see documentation of search_pubs.
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search_keyword
(keyword: str)[source]¶ Search by keyword and return a generator of Author objects
Parameters: keyword (str) – keyword to be searched Example:: search_query = scholarly.search_keyword('Haptics') scholarly.pprint(next(search_query))
Output:: {'affiliation': 'Postdoctoral research assistant, University of Bremen', 'citedby': 56666, 'email_domain': '@collision-detection.com', 'filled': False, 'interests': ['Computer Graphics', 'Collision Detection', 'Haptics', 'Geometric Data Structures'], 'name': 'Rene Weller', 'scholar_id': 'lHrs3Y4AAAAJ', 'source': 'SEARCH_AUTHOR_SNIPPETS', 'url_picture': 'https://scholar.google.com/citations?view_op=medium_photo&user=lHrs3Y4AAAAJ'}
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search_keywords
(keywords: List[str])[source]¶ Search by keywords and return a generator of Author objects
Parameters: keywords – a list of keywords to be searched Example:: search_query = scholarly.search_keywords(['crowdsourcing', 'privacy']) scholarly.pprint(next(search_query))
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search_org
(name: str, fromauthor: bool = False) → list[source]¶ Search by organization name and return a list of possible disambiguations
Example:: Output::
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search_pubs
(query: str, patents: bool = True, citations: bool = True, year_low: int = None, year_high: int = None, sort_by: str = 'relevance', include_last_year: str = 'abstracts', start_index: int = 0) → scholarly.publication_parser._SearchScholarIterator[source]¶ Searches by query and returns a generator of Publication objects
Parameters: - query (str) – terms to be searched
- patents (bool, optional) – Whether or not to include patents, defaults to True
- citations (bool, optional) – Whether or not to include citations, defaults to True
- year_low (int, optional) – minimum year of publication, defaults to None
- year_high (int, optional) – maximum year of publication, defaults to None
- sort_by (string, optional) – ‘relevance’ or ‘date’, defaults to ‘relevance’
- include_last_year (string, optional) – ‘abstracts’ or ‘everything’, defaults to ‘abstracts’ and only applies if ‘sort_by’ is ‘date’
- start_index (int, optional) – starting index of list of publications, defaults to 0
Returns: Generator of Publication objects
Return type: Iterator[
Publication
]Example:: search_query = scholarly.search_pubs('Perception of physical stability and center of mass of 3D objects') scholarly.pprint(next(search_query)) # in order to pretty print the result
Output:: {'author_id': ['4bahYMkAAAAJ', 'ruUKktgAAAAJ', ''], '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', 'RW Fleming', 'M Singh'], 'pub_year': '2015', 'title': 'Perception of physical stability and center of mass of 3-D ' 'objects', 'venue': 'Journal of vision'}, 'citedby_url': '/scholar?cites=15736880631888070187&as_sdt=5,33&sciodt=0,33&hl=en', 'eprint_url': 'https://jov.arvojournals.org/article.aspx?articleID=2213254', 'filled': False, 'gsrank': 1, 'num_citations': 23, 'pub_url': 'https://jov.arvojournals.org/article.aspx?articleID=2213254', 'source': 'PUBLICATION_SEARCH_SNIPPET', 'url_add_sclib': '/citations?hl=en&xsrf=&continue=/scholar%3Fq%3DPerception%2Bof%2Bphysical%2Bstability%2Band%2Bcenter%2Bof%2Bmass%2Bof%2B3D%2Bobjects%26hl%3Den%26as_sdt%3D0,33&citilm=1&json=&update_op=library_add&info=K8ZpoI6hZNoJ&ei=QhqhX66wKoyNy9YPociEuA0', 'url_scholarbib': '/scholar?q=info:K8ZpoI6hZNoJ:scholar.google.com/&output=cite&scirp=0&hl=en'}
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search_pubs_custom_url
(url: str) → scholarly.publication_parser._SearchScholarIterator[source]¶ Search by custom URL and return a generator of Publication objects URL should be of the form ‘/scholar?q=…’
Parameters: url (string) – custom url to seach for the publication
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search_single_pub
(pub_title: str, filled: bool = False) → scholarly.publication_parser.PublicationParser[source]¶ Search by scholar query and return a single Publication container object
Parameters: - pub_title (string) – Title of the publication to search
- filled (bool) – Whether the application should be filled with additional information
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set_logger
(enable: bool)[source]¶ Enable or disable the logger for google scholar. Enabled by default
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set_retries
(num_retries: int) → None[source]¶ Sets the number of retries in case of errors
Parameters: num_retries (int) – the number of retries
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use_proxy
(proxy_generator: scholarly._proxy_generator.ProxyGenerator) → None[source]¶ Select which proxy method to use. See the available ProxyGenerator methods.
Parameters: proxy_generator (ProxyGenerator) – proxy generator objects
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