Sevak

Utility to scrape professor research areas and find their H index from Google Scholar.

To Install

Clone the repo locally : git clone https://github.com/iit-technology-ambit/Sevak.git
cd Sevak
Spawn a pipenv shell inside his folder : pipenv shell If pipenv isn't installed, run pip3 install python-pipenv and then pipenv shell
To install dependencies pipenv install

Create a client_secret.json file on the Google Developers Console. Make sure you add the Google Drive API. Visit the link for more instructions: https://www.twilio.com/blog/2017/02/an-easy-way-to-read-and-write-to-a-google-spreadsheet-in-python.html
Sevak supports passing a list of departments for which you want the list as an argument. For example, if you want results only for Mechanical, CS and Civil Engineering, you can run the app as python app.py CE CS ME
To run Sevak for all departments, just run python app.py
To start the process, open localhost:5000 in your browser and let it run. It takes about 4 hours for Sevak to run completely.