Check Publicatioin

Inspiration

Research groups usually maintain a collection of all the publications of their group members on their website, but it's always a lot of work to create the correct reference and to check the update periodically, so I wrote a python program that automate this process

What it does

By entering the author's first name and last name in a graphic interface, the program runs a scrawler that gathers all the publication pages of that author from the database, parse and re-order the information to create AGU style references, and check if it's already in the pool of included publications. In the end, the program output a list of AGU references that need to be included in to a .txt file.

How I built it

I used Scrapy for the scrawler, and used Tkinter for a (small) graphic interface.

Challenges I ran into

The database actually doesn't follow any reference style, so I have to parse and re-order the information from multiple fields on the website to create AGU style references.

Accomplishments that I'm proud of

I have never tried to create graphic interface before, so I'm pretty proud that I did it.

What I learned

Python, Scrapy, Tkinter...

What's next for Check Publication

I can include other styles as an option on the graphic interface. And also include other database for a more complete check.

Built With

• python
• scrapy