easychair-review-scraper.py

   1 #!/usr/bin/python3
   2 # -*- coding: utf-8  -*-
   3 """ Bot to scrape a list of EasyChair submissions and upload them to a wiki """
   4 #
   5 # (C) Benjamin Mako Hill, 2018
   6 # (C) Federico Leva, 2016
   7 #
   8 # Distributed under the terms of the MIT license.
   9 #
  10 __version__ = '0.2.0'
  11
  12 # NOTE: change all copies of FIXME
  13
  14 import requests
  15 from lxml import html
  16 import re
  17 from kitchen.text.converters import to_bytes
  18 import pandas as pd
  19
  20 cj = requests.utils.cookiejar_from_dict( { "cool2": "FIXME", "cool1": "FIXME" } )
  21 headers = {"User-Agent": "Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Fedora; Linux x86_64; rv:42.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/42.0" }
  22 index = requests.get("https://easychair.org/conferences/status.cgi?a=FIXME", cookies=cj, headers=headers)
  23 indexdata = html.fromstring(index.text)
  24 urls = indexdata.xpath('//a[contains(@href,"review_for_paper.cgi")]/@href')
  25
  26 reviews = pd.DataFrame()
  27
  28 def empty_to_none(s):
  29     if s == "":
  30         s = None
  31     return(s)
  32
  33 for url in urls:
  34     sub_html = html.fromstring(requests.get("https://easychair.org/conferences/" + url,
  35                                             cookies=cj, headers=headers).text)
  36
  37     # capture features of submissions
  38     sub_id = sub_html.xpath('//title')[0].text
  39     sub_id = re.sub(r'^Reviews and Comments on Submission (\d+)$', r'\1', sub_id)
  40
  41     score_labels = ['label', 'date', 'reviewer', 'subreviewer', 'score', 'confidence' 'overall']
  42     for tr in sub_html.xpath('//th[text()="PC member"]/../../../tbody/tr'):
  43         score = [td.text_content() for td in tr.xpath('td')]
  44         score = [empty_to_none(x) for x in score]
  45         score_dict = dict(zip(score_labels, score))
  46         score_dict["sub_id"] = sub_id
  47         reviews = reviews.append(pd.DataFrame(score_dict, index=[0]))
  48
  49 reviews["date"] = reviews["date"] + ", 2017"
  50 reviews["date"] = pd.to_datetime(reviews["date"])
  51
  52 reviews.to_csv("opensym-reviews-20180113.csv", index=False, index_label=False)
  53