WoSgetter

A program to export large amounts of metadata from Web of Science.

Dependencies

This program depends on several things that are not in this repository:

Go compiler (and Go libraries) (those are not needed if you download the binary release)
Google Chrome (https://www.google.com/chrome/)
Chromedriver (http://chromedriver.chromium.org/downloads)

Building

git clone https://github.com/x0wllaar/WoSgetter
cd WoSgetter
go get .
go build -o wosgetter.exe .

These commands will download the code, all the necessary Go libraries and build the executable. You will still have to download Chrome and the Chromedriver binary.

Command line flags

> .\wosgetter.exe -h
Usage of wosgetter.exe:
  -chrome string
        Path to Chrome(ium) binary (default "C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Google\\Chrome\\Application\\chrome.exe")
  -driver string
        Path to Chromedriver binary (default "./chromedriver")
  -filen int
        File number to start with (default 1)
  -from int
        What record to start from (default 1)
  -o string
        Where to save the reports (default ".")
  -to int
        What record to end with

How to use

Install Google Chrome (or Chromium) and download the Chromedriver binary.
Start the program with the relevant command line flags.
A Chrome window will open.
In this window, navigate to the WoS page with the relevant results
In the command line window, press Enter to start the download

Continuing interrupted downloads

The steps are exactly the same, but you will need to use the filen, from and to command line flags

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