Create a genealogy graph for a scientist on Mathematics Genealogy Project. The code has been tested on python3.6.
Make sure the following dependencies are installed:
pip install requests beautifulsoup4 lxml graphviz
For Windows users: You might encounter some troubles when rendering the dot representation of the graph to a pdf. The answer to this stackoverflow post might help.
Clone the repo:
git clone https://github.com/pedrozudo/MathGenGraph.git
Figure out who you want to stalk. Therefore, go to the website, search for the scientists in whose academic genealogy you are interested, and from the url get the ID. For example, for Lise Meitner you would have the following url.
https://www.genealogy.math.ndsu.nodak.edu/id.php?id=110960
The ID is then the last part of the address: 110960.
Once you know this, you are ready:
cd MathGenGraph
python mathgengraph/mathgengraph.py 110960
Most of the time is spent on scraping the website. The name of the "currently scraped" scientist is printed out to the terminal.
In mathgengraph/digrams you can now find the file 110960.pdf. Here is the result.