First Page Conference

1. Automatically download all papers of a particular conference.
2. Create a pdf file containing the first pages of these papers.

Prerequisites

• pdftk (sudo snap install pdftk if using Ubuntu 18.04)
• some python packages: requests, HTMLParser

How to Run

python main.py [IEEE|ACM] [conference ID] [filter ID*] [output file]

*filter ID is optional and only needed for IEEE.

Find Conference ID

For ACM library, you can first find your conference from ACM Conference List, and then go to the conference page (e.g. ISCA) and check the "Publication Archive" tab (e.g. ISCA 2017). The conference ID is in the URL (e.g., https://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=3079856) In the end, you can run our script such as

python main.py ACM 3079856 summary_ACM.pdf

For IEEE library, you can find your conference from IEEE Conference List. After finding your conference, (e.g., Oakland 2018, at https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/mostRecentIssue.jsp?punumber=8418581, please scroll down and go to the second page. On this page, check punumber and filter fields in the URL, [https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/mostRecentIssue.jsp?punumber=8418581&filter=issueId EQ "8418583" &pageNumber=2](https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/mostRecentIssue.jsp?punumber=8418581&filter=issueId EQ "8418583" &pageNumber=2)). Specifically, for the filter field, please check the number between double quotes [filter=issueId EQ "8418583"]. In the end, you can run our script such as

python main.py IEEE 8418581 8418583 summary_IEEE.pdf

Limitation

Currently we only support ACM and IEEE libraries.