This is a python program to search arXiv’s paper given an author. It can also do institution verification and subject verification to find the paper published by this author with a specific affiliation.

feedparser, urllib, numpy, pandas, pyprind, pdfminer

If we want to find papers authored by Yann Lecun, we can use author = arxiv(Lecun_Yann) to initialize. Then use author.parse() to query arXiv and parse the returned data.

• author.count: number of papers
• author.arxiv_id: paper’s arxiv id
• author.time: paper’s submission time
• author.title: paper’s title
• author.category: paper’s category
• author.pdf: paper’s pdf link
• author.subject: subjects of all of author’s papers
• author.contributor: paper’s contributors

If we also want to find paper by Yann Lecun submitted with affiliation in NYU, we can use author.institution_verify(save=False, institution=[‘nyu’, ‘new york university’]) If save=True, it will download all papers and save them to local.

institution_verify() will download all papers returned by searching query, and please do not use this as a robot to get all available papers from arXiv! ‘Indiscriminate automated downloads from arXiv are not premitted’. See more information about this: http://arxiv.org/help/robots