Connects to the Altmetric API to get information on CU Department publications, and then publishes this to a CSV and email report. I am very new to Python, so if you see anything out of place or my code is messy, please let me know!

Make sure to set the following variables and files before starting in query.py:

• EMAIL_ADDRESS: the Google email address to send from
• EMAIL_FRIENDLY_NAME: the human-readable name you'd like the report to appear from
• EMAIL_REPORT_SUBJECT: the subject line of the report emails
• ALTMETRICS_DEPT_ID: if you do an Altmetrics Explorer Research Outputs search for your department, this will show up as the last digits of the URL after 'cuboulder%3Agroup%3A'
• SEND_REPORTS_TO_EMAILS: a list of email strings to send to. See query.py for an example.
• SEND_DEV_REPORTS_TO_EMAILS: a list of email strings to send to for testing purposes. See query.py for an example.
• DEPARTMENT_EXCLUSIONS: The friendly name of your department according to Altmetrics. This is the actual name that shows up when you filter by your department in their searches.

Create a credentials.json file according to step 1 in https://developers.google.com/gmail/api/quickstart/python and either put this in the root of your copy of the repo, or configure it as a secret for Github Actions.

After you put credentials.json into the root of your repo, run query.py (probably in a python venv) to generate token.json. Then you can configure it as a secret for Github Actions.

Remove the .example suffix from the .yml files in .github/workflows/ and customize them to your needs.

• ALTMETRIC_API_KEY: a 32 character alphanumeric string from https://www.altmetric.com/explorer/documentation/api
• ALTMETRIC_API_SECRET: a 32 character alphanumeric string from https://www.altmetric.com/explorer/documentation/api
• GMAIL_CREDENTIALS: the contents of credentials.json from above
• GMAIL_TOKEN: the contents of token.json from above