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# Camel.toolkits.google scholar toolkit

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<a id="camel.toolkits.google_scholar_toolkit.GoogleScholarToolkit" />

## GoogleScholarToolkit

```python theme={"system"}
class GoogleScholarToolkit(BaseToolkit):
```

A toolkit for retrieving information about authors and their
publications from Google Scholar.

**Parameters:**

* **author\_identifier** (Union\[str, None]): The author's Google Scholar URL or name of the author to search for.
* **is\_author\_name** (bool): Flag to indicate if the identifier is a name. (default: :obj:`False`)
* **scholarly** (module): The scholarly module for querying Google Scholar.
* **author** (Optional\[Dict\[str, Any]]): Cached author details, allowing manual assignment if desired.

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### **init**

```python theme={"system"}
def __init__(
    self,
    author_identifier: str,
    is_author_name: bool = False,
    use_free_proxies: bool = False,
    proxy_http: Optional[str] = None,
    proxy_https: Optional[str] = None,
    timeout: Optional[float] = None
):
```

Initializes the GoogleScholarToolkit with the author's identifier.

**Parameters:**

* **author\_identifier** (str): The author's Google Scholar URL or name of the author to search for.
* **is\_author\_name** (bool): Flag to indicate if the identifier is a name. (default: :obj:`False`)
* **use\_free\_proxies** (bool): Whether to use Free Proxies. (default: :obj:`False`)
* **proxy\_http** (Optional\[str]): Proxy http address pass to pg. SingleProxy. (default: :obj:`None`)
* **proxy\_https** (Optional\[str]): Proxy https address pass to pg. SingleProxy. (default: :obj:`None`)

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### author

```python theme={"system"}
def author(self):
```

**Returns:**

Dict\[str, Any]: A dictionary containing author details. If no data
is available, returns an empty dictionary.

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### author

```python theme={"system"}
def author(self, value: Optional[Dict[str, Any]]):
```

Sets or overrides the cached author information.

**Parameters:**

* **value** (Optional\[Dict\[str, Any]]): A dictionary containing author details to cache or `None` to clear the cached data.

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### \_extract\_author\_id

```python theme={"system"}
def _extract_author_id(self):
```

**Returns:**

Optional\[str]: The extracted author ID, or None if not found.

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### get\_author\_detailed\_info

```python theme={"system"}
def get_author_detailed_info(self):
```

**Returns:**

dict: A dictionary containing detailed information about the
author.

<a id="camel.toolkits.google_scholar_toolkit.GoogleScholarToolkit.get_author_publications" />

### get\_author\_publications

```python theme={"system"}
def get_author_publications(self):
```

**Returns:**

List\[str]: A list of publication titles authored by the author.

<a id="camel.toolkits.google_scholar_toolkit.GoogleScholarToolkit.get_publication_by_title" />

### get\_publication\_by\_title

```python theme={"system"}
def get_publication_by_title(self, publication_title: str):
```

Retrieves detailed information about a specific publication by its
title. Note that this method cannot retrieve the full content of the
paper.

**Parameters:**

* **publication\_title** (str): The title of the publication to search for.

**Returns:**

Optional\[dict]: A dictionary containing detailed information about
the publication if found; otherwise, `None`.

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### get\_full\_paper\_content\_by\_link

```python theme={"system"}
def get_full_paper_content_by_link(self, pdf_url: str):
```

Retrieves the full paper content from a given PDF URL using the
arxiv2text tool.

**Parameters:**

* **pdf\_url** (str): The URL of the PDF file.

**Returns:**

Optional\[str]: The full text extracted from the PDF, or `None` if
an error occurs.

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### get\_tools

```python theme={"system"}
def get_tools(self):
```

**Returns:**

List\[FunctionTool]: A list of FunctionTool objects
representing the functions in the toolkit.