semanticscholar

A python library that aims to retrieve data from Semantic Scholar API.

How to install

pip install semanticscholar

Usage

Programmatically access paper and author data. Can be used to access both the public API or the S2 Data Partner's API using a private key.

Paper Lookup (Public API)

To access paper data:

>>> from semanticscholar import SemanticScholar
>>> sch = SemanticScholar(timeout=2)
>>> paper = sch.paper('10.1093/mind/lix.236.433')
>>> paper.keys()
dict_keys(['abstract', 'arxivId', 'authors', 'citationVelocity', 'citations', 'doi',
'influentialCitationCount', 'paperId', 'references', 'title', 'topics', 'url', 'venue', 'year'])
>>> paper['title']
'Computing Machinery and Intelligence'
>>> for author in paper['authors']:
...     print(author['name'])
...     print(author['authorId'])
...
'Alan M. Turing'
2262347

Author Lookup (Public API)

To access author data:

>>> from semanticscholar import SemanticScholar
>>> sch = SemanticScholar(timeout=2)
>>> author = sch.author(2262347)
>>> author.keys()
dict_keys(['aliases', 'authorId', 'citationVelocity', 'influentialCitationCount', 'name', 'papers', 'url'])
>>> author['name']
'Alan M. Turing'
>>> len(author['papers'])
77

Accessing the Data Partner's API

If you are a Semantic Scholar Data Partner you can provide the private key as an optional argument:

>>> from semanticscholar import SemanticScholar
>>> s2_api_key = '40-CharacterPrivateKeyProvidedToPartners'
>>> sch = SemanticScholar(api_key=s2_api_key)