https://github.com/zcaceres/academia.edu-web-scraper-and-cv-gen

Web Scraper and Basic CV Generator for Academia.edu profiles
https://github.com/zcaceres/academia.edu-web-scraper-and-cv-gen

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Web Scraper and Basic CV Generator for Academia.edu profiles

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/zcaceres/academia.edu-web-scraper-and-cv-gen
• Owner: zcaceres
• License: mit
• Created: 2016-11-11T22:51:30.000Z (about 9 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2017-06-19T07:09:32.000Z (over 8 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2025-03-02T04:43:22.948Z (9 months ago)
• Language: Python
• Size: 48.8 KB
• Stars: 1
• Watchers: 2
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 0
• Metadata Files:
  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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# Web Scraper and CV Generator for Academia.Edu

## A PYTHON-A-THON 2016 PROJECT

#### by Zach Caceres (@zachcaceres)

A beautifulsoup-based web scraper and basic CV generator for Academia.edu profiles.

Requires: 

- [pdfkit](https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pdfkit)

- [beautifulsoup](https://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/)

- [requests](docs.python-requests.org/en/master/)

Instructions:

1. Paste url of any academia.edu profile

2. Receive CV

Not exhaustive. Uses top ten elements per category (for example, top ten papers or 

books).

You will also need [wkhtmltopdf](http://wkhtmltopdf.org/downloads.html) installed accessible

to pdfkit.

**To do:**

1. Make generated pdf format prettier...