Article

This section introduces the class Article and ArticleList.

Article class

The class Article is an internal class for TrendFlow.

Instance Attributes

• title (str): the title of the article
• authors (list of str): the authors of the article
• abstract (str): the abstract of the articles
• url (str): the url of the article
• publication_year (int): the publication year of the article

Instance Functions

• def __init__(self, title: str, authors: List[str], abstract: str, url: str, publication_year: int) -> None: create an Article object.
• to_dict(self) -> dict: return the dict form of this article

ArticleList class

The list representation of articles.

Instance Functions

• def __init__(self,articles:Optional[Union[Article, List[Article]]]=None) -> None: create an ArticleList object from one Article or a list of Article.
• addArticles(self, articles:Union[Article, List[Article]]): add article to the list
• to_dataframe(self) ->pd.DataFrame: convert to pd.DataFrame object
• getArticles(self) -> List[Article]: return a list of the articles
• getAbstracts(self) -> List[str]: return a list of abstracts of the articles
• getTitles(self) -> List[str]:: return a list of titles of the articles

Class Functions

• parse_ieee_articles(cls,items: Union[dict, List[dict]]): parse the search results from IEEE platform into a ArticleList object
• parse_arxiv_articles(cls, items: Union[dict, List[dict]]): parse the search results from Arxiv platform into a ArticleList object
• parse_pwc_articles(cls, items: Union[dict, List[dict]]): parse the search results from Paper with Code platform into a ArticleList object