Retrieves a list of authors by screen-scraping DBLP tags. Currently set for SCAM, change base_url for your conference. Runs best with Python3 due to Unicode names.

dblp_authors.py

from lxml import html
import requests
import operator

authors_dict = {}
base_url = 'http://dblp.uni-trier.de/db/conf/scam/scam'
for year in range(2000,2016):
    page = requests.get(base_url + str(year) + '.html')
    tree = html.fromstring(page.content)
    authors = tree.xpath('//span[@itemprop="author"]/a/span[@itemprop="name"]/text()')
    for author in authors:
        if author in authors_dict.keys():
            authors_dict[author] = authors_dict[author] + 1
        else :
            authors_dict[author] = 1

sorted_x = sorted(authors_dict.items(), key=operator.itemgetter(1))
for x in sorted_x:
    print (x[0] + ',' + str(x[1]))