A simple Python wrapper around the DBLP API, currently supporting author search and author and publication lookup.

Let's search for Michael Ley, DBLP maintainer. Try :

>>> import dblp
>>> #do a simple author search for michael ley
>>> authors = dblp.search('michael ley')
>>> michael = authors[0]
>>> print michael.name
Michael Ley
>>> print len(michael.publications)
31

If you'd like to learn more about Michael's work, you can explore his publications. All publication results are lazy-loaded, so have at it :

>>> print michael.publications[0].title
DBLP - Some Lessons Learned.
>>> print michael.publications[0].journal
PVLDB
>>> print michael.publications[0].year
2009

More information about a publication can often be found at its ee URL - in this case, a link to the PDF :

>>> print michael.publications[0].ee
http://www.vldb.org/pvldb/2/vldb09-98.pdf

Other publication and author attributes are documented with their respective classes- just use help(). Enjoy!

Contributions are very welcome! Feel free to fork the repo and request a pull, or open an issue if you find a bug or would like to request a feature.