Drawing Google Scholar Stats on RPI Waveshare

Prerequisites

Name	Link	Price
Raspberry Pi Zero WH	Get it here	$16
Waveshare 2.13 Display Hat	Get it here	$15

Getting started

Update and upgrade the RPI

sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade

Install git and clone this repository

sudo apt-get install git
git clone https://github.com/philipempl/ResearchyPi.git
cd ./ResearchyPi

Install Python and its dependencies

sudo apt-get install libxslt-dev python3-pip python3-pil
sudo pip3 install RPi.GPIO scholarly

Enable SPI

To enable SPI, follow these steps:

sudo raspi-config

Then, navigate to "Interface Options" (Option 3) and enable SPI (I4).

Run the app

You can find the scholar identifier in the URL provided by Google Scholar after "user=" and ending with an ampersand.

python3 src/main.py Lu-BjV4AAAAJ

Update the stats continuously

To update and schedule your stats automatically, create a service file using systemd. For instance:

sudo nano /etc/systemd/system/update-stats.service

The service file itself, updating every 14400 seconds (4-hour interval), looks like this:

[Unit]
Description=ResearchyPi
After=multi-user.target

[Service]
Type=idle
User=pi
ExecStart=python3 /home/pi/ResearchyPi/main.py SCHOLAR_ID

Restart=always
RestartSec=14400

[Install]
WantedBy=multi-user.target

Then, grant rights to the user and enable the systemd file on startup by running the following commands:

sudo chmod 644 /etc/systemd/system/update-stats.service
sudo systemctl daemon-reload
sudo systemctl enable update-stats.service
sudo systemctl start update-stats.service

Contributing

If you'd like to contribute, have a look through existing Issues and Pull Requests that you could help with. If you would like to request a feature or report a bug, please create a GitHub Issue using one of the default templates.

Authors

Philip Empl - Department of Information Systems @ University of Regensburg

License

This project is available under the MIT license.


Feel free to copy and paste this markdown into your GitHub README.md file, and it should create a visually appealing and well-structured README for your project. Make sure to replace `SCHOLAR_ID` with the actual scholar identifier where needed.