A simple, lightweight, easy use pythonic AI Conference paper collector.

Open Manual_total.xlsx, all crawled papers are listed in there.

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• Scrapy
• Selenium
• Peewee (ORM framework for SQLite)

We offer a shell script to crawl all Conferences' papers.

We assuming your start path is this repo's directory.

After your environment is ready, just run:

cd spider_conference
bash ./crawl.sh

CSV files will be created under project path.

If you just want to crawl Specific Conferences' paper, run:

scrapy crawl <CONFERENCE_NAME>

you can find <CONFERENCE_NAME> in crawl.sh

After collect all conferences, go to project path, run:

python csv2xlsx.py

and you will get Collector.xlsx, containing all papers.

• Use scrapy to get paper infos from denoted Conference urls, for example title, abstract, etc.
• Save these infos into CSV files, or lightweight sqlite3 database.
• Offer tools to get papers we want from database, convert into excel format (In the furture).

This chapter records resources for developing a spider program.

• Xpath入门教程
• W3school Xpath
• 形象解释Scrapy
• 常用库汇总

• Abstract in two record in ECCV.csv is spliced into multiple lines, need manual correction.

  In csv, find :

  angle$ triplet needs to be maintained correctly. For example
  

  ho$. Furthermore
  

  to see these two bad records.

• AAAI: collect over 1000 more records than published, indicating that some records are splited in to multiple rows.

• NIPS: when write into csv file, there is some records' chaos.

  

  • Possible Problem:

    Excel encoding should be saved and opened in UTF-8 encoding.

    Content of these record make an error when opening the CSV format file.

• Finish all listed conferences' spider
• Add sql support
• Create a tiny website, with UI and some search tools.