Create update_citations.py

Author: zyaocoder

scripts/update_citations.py

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+#!/usr/bin/env python3
+import os
+import json
+import requests
+from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
+
+# === CONFIG ===
+SCHOLAR_USER_ID = "8-IhrB0AAAAJ"   # your Google Scholar user ID
+OUT_PATH = "assets/json/citations.json"
+
+def fetch_total_citations():
+    url = f"https://scholar.google.com/citations?user={SCHOLAR_USER_ID}&hl=en"
+    headers = {
+        "User-Agent": (
+            "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) "
+            "AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) "
+            "Chrome/124.0 Safari/537.36"
+        )
+    }
+    r = requests.get(url, headers=headers, timeout=30)
+    r.raise_for_status()
+
+    soup = BeautifulSoup(r.text, "html.parser")
+
+    # On Scholar, the total citations is in the first cell of this table
+    table = soup.find("table", id="gsc_rsb_st")
+    if not table:
+        raise RuntimeError("Could not find citation stats table on Google Scholar page.")
+
+    cells = table.find_all("td", class_="gsc_rsb_std")
+    if not cells:
+        raise RuntimeError("Could not find citation value cell on Google Scholar page.")
+
+    total_citations = cells[0].get_text(strip=True)
+    return total_citations
+
+def main():
+    citations = fetch_total_citations()
+    print(f"Total citations: {citations}")
+
+    data = {
+        "schemaVersion": 1,
+        "label": "citations",
+        "message": citations,
+        "color": "9cf"
+    }
+
+    os.makedirs(os.path.dirname(OUT_PATH), exist_ok=True)
+    with open(OUT_PATH, "w", encoding="utf-8") as f:
+        json.dump(data, f, ensure_ascii=False)
+
+    print(f"Wrote {OUT_PATH}")
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+    main()