Searching for author with a running number

[mrksbrg]

Some authors share the same name and thus a number is appended to their DBLP profile, e.g., "Thomas Olsson 0001" for https://dblp.uni-trier.de/pers/hd/o/Olsson_0001:Thomas

As far as I understand, the wrapper does not work for such names.

I'd love to see a solution to this issue!

[chinmaygarg13]

Do the following changes in the init.py file:

def search(author_str): resp = requests.get(DBLP_AUTHOR_SEARCH_URL, params={'xauthor':author_str}) #TODO error handling root = etree.fromstring(resp.content) arr_of_authors = [] for urlpt in root.xpath('/authors/author/@urlpt'): resp1 = requests.get(DBLP_PERSON_URL.format(urlpt=urlpt)) xml = resp1.content root1 = etree.fromstring(xml) if root1.xpath('/dblpperson/homonym/text()'): for hom_urlpt in root1.xpath('/dblpperson/homonym/text()'): arr_of_authors.append(Author(hom_urlpt)) else: arr_of_authors.append(Author(urlpt)) return arr_of_authors

I tried to write the code indented here in this comment, but I don't know why it won't happen.
I hope you will be able to understand.
Though this method kills the purpose of loading data lazily, but it still solves the issue.

[mrksbrg]

Hi, thanks for looking into this! It works for me, and I believe this will be good enough for my purpose.