This tool provides a method for scraping through NCBI's PubMed publications and retrieving (downloading) the figures from open access and publicly available publications.
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If you would like to run or modify the publication figure web scraping tool locally, clone the repository with git by running the following command:
git clone https://github.com/ASully/Publication-Figures-Web-Scraping.git
Then run npm install, change to appropriate directory and then npm start. This tool will run at http://localhost:3000/.
The images are downloaded to your local download location that is designated by your browser you decide to run this tool on.
Just follow the instructions provided on the localhost page that appears after you run npm start. All you need to do is input an organism and max number of papers you wish to scrape and hit the 'Start scraping' button.
We aim to make this tool as perfect as possible but unfortunately, there may be some unforseen bugs. If you manage to find one that is not here, feel free to create a bug report so we can fix it.
- None at the moment... Help us find some!
Please read CONTRIBUTING.md for more details.