[Tutor] Batch searches on Googlescholar

Alan Gauld alan.gauld at btinternet.com
Wed Oct 8 10:35:15 CEST 2008


"W W" <srilyk at gmail.com> wrote

>> my aim is to identify how many times each publication got cited on 
>> google
>> Scholar.

> You can use the urllib builtin module and beautiful soup for parsing 
> HTML. I
> don't know if the Googlescholars page allows python connections, I 
> know
> regular google queries do not (they frown on web scraping, AFAIK)

Thats what I was about to say too.
But Google do have a Web Service API that might work on Scholar
too, that would be worth investigating...

Alan G. 




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