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Extract information from google scholar search.
from tornado import (ioloop, web, httpserver,
httpclient, gen, httputil, escape)
from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
class DefaultHandler(web.RequestHandler):
def get(self):
self.write(
"""
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Google Scholar Search Extractor</title>
</head>
<body>
<b>Wellcome!</b>
</body>
</html>
""")
class GoogleScholarSearchHandler(web.RequestHandler):
@web.asynchronous
@gen.engine
def get(self):
client = httpclient.AsyncHTTPClient()
q = self.get_argument('q')
start = self.get_argument('start', '10')
hl = self.get_argument('hl', 'en')
callback = self.get_argument('cb', None)
request_url = httputil.url_concat(
r'http://scholar.google.com/scholar',
dict(q = q, start = start, hl = hl)
)
response = yield gen.Task(client.fetch, request_url)
result = self.extract_info(response.body)
#json_string = escape.json_encode([obj for obj in result])
if callback is not None:
self.set_header(r'Content-Type', r'text/javascript')
self._write_jsonp(result, callback)
else:
self.set_header(r'Content-Type', r'application/json')
self._write_json(result)
self.finish()
def _write_json(self, list_obj):
self.write('[')
for obj in list_obj:
self.write(escape.json_encode(obj) + ',')
self.write(']')
def _write_jsonp(self, list_obj, callback):
self.write(';' + callback + '(')
self._write_json(list_obj)
self.write(');')
def extract_info(self, response_body):
soup = BeautifulSoup(response_body)
items = soup.select('.gs_r')
#generator
for item in items:
search = dict()
#title
title_section = item.select('h3 > a')
if len(title_section) > 0:
section = title_section[0]
title = section.get_text()
href = section.attrs['href']
search['title'] = title
search['href'] = href
#pdf
pdf_section = item.select('.gs_ggs > a')
if len(pdf_section) > 0:
section = pdf_section[0]
pdf = section.attrs['href']
search['pdf'] = pdf
#authors
authors_section_a = item.select('.gs_a > a')
authors = list()
for author in authors_section_a:
author_dict = dict()
author_dict['author'] = author.get_text()
url = u"http://scholar.google.com"
author_dict['citations'] = url + author.attrs['href']
authors.append(author_dict)
authors_section_b = item.select('.gs_a')
if len(authors_section_b) > 0:
section = authors_section_b[0]
section_text = section.get_text()
names, conference, publisher = section_text.split(' - ')
for author in names.split(','):
authors.append({'author':author})
search['conference'] = conference
search['publisher'] = publisher
search['authors'] = authors
#abstract
abstract_section = item.select('.gs_rs')
if len(abstract_section) > 0:
section = abstract_section[0]
search['abstract'] = section.get_text()
#citation
citation_section = item.select('.gs_fl > a')
if len(authors_section_b) > 0:
section = citation_section[0]
citation_count = section.get_text().split(' ')[2]
search['citations'] = citation_count
yield search
application = web.Application([
(r'/g', GoogleScholarSearchHandler),
(r'/.*', DefaultHandler),
], debug = True)
if __name__ == "__main__":
application.listen(8000)
ioloop.IOLoop.instance().start()
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