akshaybadola/s2cache

Python Semantic Scholar API client with a local cache.

Unofficial Semantic Scholar Client

Python Semantic Scholar https://www.semanticscholar.org/product/api client with a local cache.

Features

• Async requests
• Local JSON files based storage to avoid redundant requests
• Can fetch citations > 10000 (Semantic Scholar API limit) when the full parsed citation graph is on disk.
• Filter the data based on certain predicates like
  • Year
  • Author
  • Title
  • Venue
  • CitationCount
• Local cache of dumped Semantic Scholar Citation Data, for fetching citations with papers > 10000.

Installation

pip install s2cache

Usage

The package is a library for your Bibliography metadata managment needs. The intended use is applications which use Semantic Scholar data for generating bibliography management, visualizing citation graphs etc.

It can fetch citations and references from Semantic Scholar API https://www.semanticscholar.org/product/api and store in a local cache to avoid redundant requests to the service as the citation data fetches can be network intensive.

There is also a filters module also which can be combined to filter the data

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License

MIT License

See Semantic Scholar License page https://www.semanticscholar.org/product/api/license to view the API License.