Patch https://github.com/venthur/gscholar/ to take author and title as arguments in order to narrow search results.

gscholar.patch

--- gscholar/gscholar/gscholar.py
+++ gscholar/gscholar/gscholar.py
@@ -57,8 +57,10 @@
 
 def query(searchstr, outformat, allresults=False):
     """Return a list of bibtex items."""
-    logging.debug("Query: %s" % searchstr)
-    searchstr = '/scholar?q='+urllib2.quote(searchstr)
+    author = searchstr[0]
+    title = searchstr[1]
+    logging.debug("Query: author:%s title:%s" % (author, title))
+    searchstr = '/scholar?as_q=&as_epq='+urllib2.quote(title)+'&as_oq=&as_eq=&as_occt=title&as_sauthors='+urllib2.quote(author)+'&as_publication=&as_ylo=&as_yhi=&btnG=&hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C5' 
     url = GOOGLE_SCHOLAR_URL + searchstr
     header = HEADERS
     header['Cookie'] = header['Cookie'] + ":CF=%d" % outformat
@@ -78,9 +80,9 @@
         request = urllib2.Request(url, headers=header)
         response = urllib2.urlopen(request)
         bib = response.read()
-        print
-        print
-        print bib
+        #print
+        #print
+        #print bib
         result.append(bib)
     return result
 
@@ -190,12 +192,12 @@
         outformat = FORMAT_REFMAN
     elif options.output == 'wenxianwang':
         outformat = FORMAT_WENXIANWANG
-    if len(args) != 1:
+    if len(args) < 1:
         parser.error("No argument given, nothing to do.")
         sys.exit(1)
-    args = args[0]
+    #args = args[0]
     pdfmode = False
-    if os.path.exists(args):
+    if os.path.exists(args[1]):
         logging.debug("File exist, assuming you want me to lookup the pdf: %s." % args)
         pdfmode = True
         biblist = pdflookup(args, all, outformat)