Disclaimer: The author posed the following code for academic purposes and an illustration of Selenium only. Scraping LexisNexis may be a violation of LexisNexis user policy. Use at your own legal risk.
LexisNexis Uni subscription
python v3.6
pandas v0.20.1
selenium v3.141
python-docx v0.8.7
chromedriver.exe
The search query
searchTerms = r'apple shareholder class action'
The Nexis Uni subscription Login Page (Below is the example of USC subscription)
url = r'http://libguides.usc.edu/go.php?c=9232127'
Your Login Informaiton
username = 'MyUSCPassUsername'
password = 'MyUSCPassWord'
The folder you store this file (Below is example of my Desktop)
root = r'C:\Users\chongshu\Desktop\LexisNexis'
Second you wish to restart the program if frozen
dead_time = 300
Do not change the following code
path_to_chromedriver = root + r'\chromedriver'
download_folder = root + r'\download'
download_file(url = url, searchTerms = searchTerms, username = username, \
dead_time = dead_time, path_to_chromedriver=path_to_chromedriver, \
download_folder = download_folder)
unzip(download_folder=download_folder)
create_index(download_folder=download_folder, searchTerms = searchTerms)
You may also need customerize the following lines depending on your institution's login page:
browser.find_element_by_id('username').send_keys(username)
browser.find_element_by_id('password').send_keys(password)
If your subscription does not require a login, delete the whole login part.
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