Turorial

• in settings.py, change WEBSITE value to 'NIPS', 'ICML', ICLR' or 'CVPR' (coresponding to databases currently in folder)

• run function sqlite_query() in /spiders/__ init __ .py

• it is basically an sqlite simulator, just query it like sqlite

Building new Database from website

• in settings.py, change WEBSITE and YEAR values (default website is 'ICLR' (iclr.cc), year is [2021,2022])

• run function build_database() in /spiders/__ init __ .py

• WARNING, it will DELETE existing DATABASE if the names match

Explaining files

• website_crawler.py: web crawler using Scrapy library, scrape site for data

• search_api.py: web crawler using arxiv and wikipedia api, search for extra info

• schema.py: build relation tables

• GUI.py: interface

• test.py: random stuffs

Using scrapy in terminal

• for "scrapy crawl" command, open terminal in /spiders

• for anything else, open terminal in root folder