README.md

get_author_id

Get the google scholar ID of S&T faculty

Dependencies

The scripts depend on two packages: GoogleSearch and docopt. To install:

pip3 install docopt
pip3 install google-search-results

Also required is the api key from https://serpapi.com

Input Data Format

call_serp.py reads a csv file from standard input. The CSV file is structured like so:

TT_ID	NAME
001	LastName,FirstName

call_serp.py assumes that there's a header, and so the first line is stripped. The ID field is not used.

Output Data Fromat

The output of call_serp.py should be piped to strip_https.py. Otherwise, there will be some extra lines starting with 'https'

TT_ID	NAME	AUTHOR_ID
001	LastName,FirstName	xxxxxx1

Usage

There are two scripts in this repo: "call_serp.py" and "strip_https.py".

The API key may be provided via environment variable

export SERP_KEY="YOUR API KEY HERE"
cat "$INPUT_FILE" | python3 call_serp.py | python3 strip_https.py > "$OUTPUT_FILE"

Or the API key may be provided through command line argument

cat "$INPUT_FILE" | python3 call_serp.py --serp-key="$SERP_KEY" | python3 strip_https.py > "$OUTPUT_FILE"