Arcas is a python tool designed to help with collecting academic articles from various APIs.

Arcas allows you:

• access meta data from different academic APIs.
• a collection of examples of analysing such meta data.

The easiest way to install it is:

` $ pip install arcas `

To install from source:

` $ git clone https://github.com/Nikoleta-v3/Arcas.git $ cd Arcas $ python setup.py install `

Arcas uses docopt to pass a list of arguments.

For example:

` $ arcas_scrape -p arxiv -t "Prisoner's Dilemma" -y 2000 -r 1 `

This query pings the arXiv api and asks for 1 record with the title containing the words Prisoner's Dilemma and published year 2000.

The full documentation can be found here: http://arcas.readthedocs.io/en/latest/index.html.

A repository that contains a set of example: https://github.com/ArcasProject/ArcasExamples