pricesleuth is a pure Python library for acquiring data about OpenAccess journals, including article processing charge (APC) information. It works with a variety of large publishers and also incorporates some smaller, miscellaneous publishers.

• BioMed Central
• Elsevier
• Hindawi
• Springer
• Wiley

• Public Library of Science (PLoS)
• Sage

pricesleuth (will be) available on PyPI.

pip install pricesleuth

All of the journal scrapers are located in pricesleuth.scrapers.journalscrapers. A specific journal's scraper object is formatted like [ScraperNameHere]Scraper.

All scraper objects have a get_entries method, which generates a Python tuple for each successfully scraped journal from that publisher. The tuple is of the form:

(publisher_name, journal_name, date_of_scraping, journal_type, ISSN_of_journal, article_publishing_cost)

• publisher_name:
• journal_name:
• date_of_scraping:
• journal_type:
• ISSN_of_journal:
• article_publishing cost:

(NOTE: not ALL journals from each publisher are able to be generated. Some suffer from web-formatting issues or other problems which prevent efficient scraping)