#Publication search This is a very simple single purpose script to query the Microsoft Academic Search Api for publications based on a list of given author names.
In order to use this:
- Download this repository
- Get an Api key from here
- Edit access_key.edit by filling in your own key and change the filename to access_key
- Create a text file containing a list of authors (one per line) you want to query. Take
test.txtas a reference if needed. - Run the script with the path to your input file as a command line argument e.g. like this
python query_authors.py test.txt - The script will save the raw results as a single json file for each author to the
output/directory
Note that this is everything but sophisticated and does not handle api errors.
If you run into API limits just stop the script and/or implement your own error handling. At least the console will tell you that there is something going wrong.