NAME
Web::Scraper::Citations - Scrapes Google Scholar profiles for citations and stuff
VERSION
This document describes Web::Scraper::Citations version 0.0.1
SYNOPSIS
use Web::Scraper::Citations;
my $author_profile = new Web::Scraper::Citations( $url_or_author_id );
say "This champ has got an h of ", $author_profile->h(), " and ", $author_profile->citations();DESCRIPTION
This scraper downloads information from Google Scholar profiles at http://scholar.google.com/citations. Scraping is limited by google to 2500 a day, so be careful with it and don't binge-scrape.
INTERFACE
new ( $url_or_author_id )
Creates a new object from the Google Citations URL or author ID (which is part of the URL anyway)
h, h_last5, citations, citations_last5, i10, i10_last5, name, affiliation
Returns the h index, citations, and number of papers with more than 10 citations, absolute or in the last 5 years.
profile_stats
Returns a hashref with all stats above, names as keys.
scrape_URL( $url )
Scrapes either a real URL or a file: which is used mainly for caching purposes or for offline.
STAT_NAMES
Constant with the names of the stats we are interested in.
CONFIGURATION AND ENVIRONMENT
Web::Scraper::Citations requires no configuration files or environment variables.
BUGS AND LIMITATIONS
No bugs have been reported.
Please report any bugs or feature requests to bug-web-scraper-citations@rt.cpan.org, or through the web interface at http://rt.cpan.org.
AUTHOR
JJ <JMERELO@cpan.org>
LICENCE AND COPYRIGHT
Copyright (c) 2015, JJ <JMERELO@cpan.org>. All rights reserved.
This module is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the GPL v3.
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