Sci-Bay: Google Scholar plus Sci-Hub

Post by agumonkey » Wed, Mar 21, 2018, 12:27 AM UTC

Post by gpm » Wed, Mar 21, 2018, 12:40 AM UTC

jrochkind1 wrote: post #8

Google Scholar definitely and intentionally offers no API. I don't see this lasting long...

Post by wyldfire » Wed, Mar 21, 2018, 1:28 AM UTC

mchannon wrote: post #11

jrochkind1 wrote: post #8

Google Scholar definitely and intentionally offers no API. I don't see this lasting long...

google.com/scholar doesn’t work for you?

Post by userbinator » Wed, Mar 21, 2018, 1:45 AM UTC

wyldfire wrote: post #16

mchannon wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

google.com/scholar doesn’t work for you?

The issue is regarding: this service (Sci-Bay) depends on Google Scholar, yet there's no public API for Google Scholar that it could leverage. If it's scraping Google Scholar results, then it's likely a ToS violation and unlikely to last long.

Post by crispyporkbites » Wed, Mar 21, 2018, 1:51 AM UTC

shakna wrote: post #9

petra wrote: post #6

How did you integrate scholar in sci-bay ? Does scholar have an API ? And about the future, how do you see google responding?

I don't know how they are doing it, but Google Scholar does not have an API, and scraping is against their TOS. > Don’t misuse our Services. For example, don’t interfere with our Services or try to access them using a method other than the interface and the instructions that we provide. Despite this, there is scholar.py [0], which can extract files from Google Scholar, though it explicitly doesn't work around the rat…