geneagrapher-core

Description

Geneagrapher is a tool for extracting information from the Mathematics Genealogy Project to form a math family tree, where connections are between advisors and their students.

This package contains the core data-grabbing and manipulation functions needed to build a math family tree. The functionality here is low level and intended to support the development of other tools. If you just want to build a geneagraph, take a look at Geneagrapher. If you want to get mathematician records and use them in code, then this project may be useful to you.

Overview

This package uses asyncio to concurrently retrieve records. In order to use the package, your code will need to call it from within an event loop.

The package provides two main features:

• Functions to get single records. These functions are described in Get a Single Record.

• A function that will return all data for a tree that begins with specified records. This function is described in Getting All Records in a Graph.

Questions and Issues

If the documentation is unclear, please reach out with questions. Likewise, if you encounter issues with the package, please report them. In both cases, the best way to do this is to file an issue here.