Converted to Python 3, and added a function

README.rst

@@ -12,29 +12,50 @@ Let's search for `Michael Ley`_, DBLP maintainer. Try ::
     >>> #do a simple author search for michael ley
     >>> authors = dblp.search('michael ley')
     >>> michael = authors[0]
-    >>> print michael.name
+    >>> print(michael.name)
     Michael Ley
-    >>> print len(michael.publications)
+    >>> 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
+   >>> print(michael.publications[0].title)
    DBLP - Some Lessons Learned.
-   >>> print michael.publications[0].journal
+   >>> print(michael.publications[0].journal)
    PVLDB
-   >>> print michael.publications[0].year
+   >>> 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
+   >>> 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!
 
 .. _Michael Ley: http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/
 
+
+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
+
+
+Keyword search ::
+
+    >>> import dblp
+    >>> papers = dblp.publ_search('Protein Function Prediction')
+    >>> papers[0].authors
+    ['Pingping Sun', 'Xian Tan', 'Sijia Guo', 'Jingbo Zhang', 'Bojian Sun', 'Ning Du', 'Han Wang', 'Hui Sun']
+    >>> papers[0].title
+    'Protein Function Prediction Using Function Associations in Protein-Protein Interaction Network.'
+    >>> papers[0].mdate
+    '2020-10-26'
+
+
 Contributing
 ============
 

dblp/__init__.py

@@ -4,6 +4,7 @@
 
 DBLP_BASE_URL = 'http://dblp.uni-trier.de/'
 DBLP_AUTHOR_SEARCH_URL = DBLP_BASE_URL + 'search/author'
+DBLP_PUB_SEARCH_URL = DBLP_BASE_URL + 'search/publ/api'
 
 DBLP_PERSON_URL = DBLP_BASE_URL + 'pers/xk/{urlpt}'
 DBLP_PUBLICATION_URL = DBLP_BASE_URL + 'rec/bibtex/{key}.xml'
@@ -18,7 +19,7 @@ def __getattr__(self, key):
             if self.data is None:
                 self.load_data()
             return self.data[key]
-        raise AttributeError, key
+        raise AttributeError(key)
 
     def load_data(self):
         pass
@@ -140,6 +141,16 @@ def load_data(self):
 
         self.data = data
 
+def publ_search(publ_str):
+    # Iddo Friedberg: search using keywords in publications. Return all publicaitons with these keywords
+    publications = []
+    resp = requests.get(DBLP_PUB_SEARCH_URL, params={'q':publ_str})
+    root = etree.fromstring(resp.content)
+    for des in root.iterdescendants():
+        if des.tag == "key":
+            publications.append(Publication(des.text))
+    return publications
+
 def search(author_str):
     resp = requests.get(DBLP_AUTHOR_SEARCH_URL, params={'xauthor':author_str})
     #TODO error handling