User_profile_creation

class user_profile_creation.extract_user_profiles(univ_name, output_path)[source]

Bases: object

Class which can extract profiles of all users from a university

extract_info(url, user_id)[source]

Function to extract a particular user’s information from general university URL

Parameters

url (str) – The URL from which response is to be retrieved
user_id (str) – ID of the particular scholar

Returns

None

extract_profiles()[source]

Function to compile Scholar data of a particular university. The function will first identify the total number of scholars in a university and then get basic summary available for each scholar.

Parameters: None –
Returns: None

get_awards()[source]

Function to Research areas of the Scholar from University Page

Parameters: None –
Returns: Research areas of the Scholar, Length of research_areas
Return type: Tuple (List, Int)

get_department()[source]

Function to extract Department of the Scholar from University Page

Parameters: None –
Returns: Department of the Scholar
Return type: str

get_department_info()[source]

Function to extract Department info (including course area) of the Scholar from University Page

Parameters: None –
Returns: Department info of the Scholar
Return type: str

get_email()[source]

Function to extract email of the Scholar from University Page

Parameters: None –
Returns: Email of the Scholar
Return type: str

get_keywords()[source]

Function to extract keywords of the Scholar from University Page

Parameters: None –
Returns: Keywords of the Scholar
Return type: str

get_name()[source]

Function to extract name of the Scholar from University Page

Parameters: None –
Returns: Name of the Scholar
Return type: str

get_netid()[source]

Function to extract NetID (University Unique Identifier) of the Scholar from University Page

Parameters: None –
Returns: NetID of the Scholar
Return type: str

get_npublications()[source]

Function to get the no of publciations of the Scholar from University Page

Parameters: None –
Returns: Publications of the Scholar
Return type: str

get_organizations()[source]

Function to extract Organizations of the Scholar from University Page

Parameters: None –
Returns: Organizations of the Scholar
Return type: str

get_overview()[source]

Function to extract Overview of the Scholar from University Page

Parameters: None –
Returns: Overview of the Scholar
Return type: str

get_profile(url, user_id)[source]

Function to extract all details of a scholar from University Page

Parameters

url (str) – The base university URL from which Scholars’ data can be extracted by appending their user_ids
user_id (str) – The university provided User ID of the scholar

Returns

Scholar Data in the form of Pandas.DataFrame

Return type

Pandas.DataFrame

get_publications()[source]

Function to extract publications of the Scholar from University Page

Parameters: None –
Returns: Publications of the Scholar
Return type: str

get_research()[source]

Function to Research areas of the Scholar from University Page

Parameters: None –
Returns: Research areas of the Scholar, Length of research_areas
Return type: Tuple (List, Int)

get_title()[source]

Function to extract Prefered title of the Scholar from University Page

Parameters: None –
Returns: Preferred title of the Scholar
Return type: str

user_profile_creation.get_userid(user_dict, key)[source]

Function to get User IDs from JSON

Parameters: user_dict (JSON) – The URL from which response is to be retrieved
Returns: User ID
Return type: str