Bug Fix:

1. unworkable retrying function back online baby
New Function:
1. reformatted datetime_transform funtion to handle more month typos
2. reformatted process_article function into 3 functions to use multi-threads better running time
3. renewed article url search technique to handle different volume websites
4. more exception handling
5. bettered keywords and affiliation strip method
6. added methods for processing author data when there exists no author table
7. added code for retry failed processing paper
8. more detailed error messages storage

01_EJDE_spider/ejde_main.py

@@ -1,8 +1,10 @@
+import time
 import uuid
 import requests
 import re
 import ejde_save
 
+from retrying import retry
 from datetime import datetime
 from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
 from concurrent.futures import ThreadPoolExecutor, as_completed
@@ -10,6 +12,9 @@ from concurrent.futures import ThreadPoolExecutor, as_completed
 '''
     爬取网站：'ejde.math.txstate.edu'
 
+    Total number of papers:
+    2023/08/08 - 4300
+
     ==========运行顺序==========
     1、ejde_main                    获取各年份的期刊链接 -> 抓取各篇论文的信息和作者信息 -> 调用ejde_save -> 存入小文件（json）暂存
     2、ejde_save                    从本地浏览暂存的小文件筛选后存入不同年份的大文件
@@ -18,42 +23,141 @@ from concurrent.futures import ThreadPoolExecutor, as_completed
 
 
 def datetime_transform(date):
+    month_typo = {
+        "Janaury": "January",
+        "Febrary": "February",
+        "Februay": "February",
+        "Mar": "March",
+        "Mach": "March",
+        "Match": "March",
+        "Maay": "May",
+        "Jun": "June",
+        "Juy": "July",
+        "Aapril": "April",
+        "Spetember": "September",
+        "Septembere": "September",
+        "Ocotber": "October",
+    }
     try:
         input_date = datetime.strptime(date, "%B %d, %Y")
         return input_date.strftime("%Y-%m-%d")
-    # handle two month-typos
+    except ValueError:
-    except ValueError as vale:
+        for typo, correction in month_typo.items():
-        if "Match 7, 2012" in date:
+            date = date.replace(typo, correction)
-            return "2012-03-07"
+
-        elif "Janaury 15, 2021" in date:
+        try:
-            return "2021-01-15"
+            input_date = datetime.strptime(date, "%B %d, %Y")
-        else:
+            return input_date.strftime("%Y-%m-%d")
-            print("Month typo:", str(vale))
+        except ValueError as val_err:
+            print("TYPO:", str(val_err))
             return date
 
 
 # Article and author detail
-def process_article(url):
+def process_volume(url):
-    response = requests.get(url)
+    articles = []
-    response.raise_for_status()
+    baseWeb = None
 
-    baseWeb = url[:url.rfind('/')] + "/"
+    retries = 5
-    html = response.text
+    for attempt in range(retries):
-    soup = BeautifulSoup(html, "html.parser")
+        try:
+            volume_response = requests.get(url)
+            if volume_response.status_code == 200:
+                volume_response.raise_for_status()
 
-    articles = soup.find_all("li")
+                baseWeb = url[:url.rfind('/')] + "/"
+                html = volume_response.text
+                volume_soup = BeautifulSoup(html, "html.parser")
+                ol_elements = volume_soup.find_all('ol')
 
-    for article in articles:
+                for ol in ol_elements:
-        authors = article.find("strong").text.strip().split(", ")
+                    em_elements = ol.find_all('em')
-        title = article.find("em").text.strip()
+                    if em_elements:
-        article_url = baseWeb + article.find("a")["href"]
+                        articles.extend(em for em in em_elements)
+                    # Another html style
+                    else:
+                        i_elements = ol.find_all('i')
+                        if i_elements:
+                            articles.extend(i for i in i_elements)
+                        else:
+                            print("HTML FORMAT FAILURE:", url)
+                            return
+                break
+        except Exception as fetch_err:
+            if attempt < retries - 1:
+                print("RETRYING TO FETCH HTML:", str(fetch_err))
+                time.sleep(1)
+                continue
+            else:
+                print("HTML FETCHING FAILURE:", url)
+                fail = {
+                    "website": url,
+                }
+                failedVolData.append(fail)
+                return
 
-        # Access article detail page
+    # Process each article using multithreading
-        response = requests.get(article_url)
+    volume_executor = ThreadPoolExecutor(max_workers=15)
-        html = response.text
+    volume_futures = [volume_executor.submit(process_html_article, baseWeb, article) for article in articles]
-        soup = BeautifulSoup(html, 'html.parser')
 
-        article_text = soup.get_text()
+    # Wait for all tasks to complete
+    for volume_futures in as_completed(volume_futures):
+        try:
+            volume_futures.result()
+        except Exception as html_err:
+            print("HTML PROCESSING ERROR:", str(html_err))
+
+
+def process_html_article(baseweb, article):
+    global articleNum, authorNum
+    # Get article title & url
+    try:
+        title = article.text.strip()
+        title = re.sub(r'\s+', ' ', title).strip()
+        article_url = baseweb + article.find_next("a")["href"]
+    except Exception as html_format_err:
+        print("HTML FORMAT FAILURE:", str(html_format_err))
+        fail = {
+            "article": str(article),
+        }
+        failedFormatData.append(fail)
+        return
+
+    # Crawl article data
+    try:
+        process_article(title, article_url)
+    except Exception as article_err:
+        print("ARTICLE PROCESSING FAILURE:", str(article_err))
+        fail = {
+            "title": title,
+            "URL": article_url,
+        }
+        failedData.append(fail)
+        return
+
+    # Save the data periodically based on batch size
+    if len(articleData) % batch_size == 0:
+        ejde_save.save_data(articleData, "Article_TS", str(uuid.uuid4()) + ".json")
+        articleNum += len(articleData)
+        articleData.clear()
+
+    if len(authorData) % batch_size == 0:
+        ejde_save.save_data(authorData, "Author_TS", str(uuid.uuid4()) + ".json")
+        authorNum += len(authorData)
+        authorData.clear()
+
+
+@retry(wait_fixed=5000, stop_max_attempt_number=5)
+def process_article(title, article_url):
+    headers = {'user-agent': 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) '
+                             'AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/86.0.4240.75 Safari/537.36'}
+    article_response = requests.get(article_url, headers=headers)
+    if article_response.status_code == 200:
+        article_response.raise_for_status()
+
+        html = article_response.text
+        article_soup = BeautifulSoup(html, 'html.parser')
+        article_text = article_soup.get_text()
 
         # Extract volume
         volume_match = re.search(r'Vol\. (\d+) \((\d+)\)', article_text)
@@ -69,26 +173,22 @@ def process_article(url):
 
         # Extract submission date
         match = re.search(r"Submitted ([A-Za-z]+\s+\d{1,2}, \d{4})", html)
-        submitted_date = match.group(1)
+        submitted_date = match.group(1) if match else None
-        if match:
+        if submitted_date:
             submitted_date = datetime_transform(submitted_date)
-        else:
-            submitted_date = None
 
         # Extract publication date
         match = re.search(r"Published ([A-Za-z]+\s+\d{1,2}, \d{4})", html)
-        publish_date = match.group(1)
+        publish_date = match.group(1) if match else None
-        if match:
+        if publish_date:
             publish_date = datetime_transform(publish_date)
-        else:
-            publish_date = None
 
         # Extract MSC
         msc_match = re.search(r'Math Subject Classifications: (.*?)\n', html)
         if not msc_match:
             msc_match = re.search(r'Math Subject Classifications:(.*?)\.', html)
         if msc_match:
-            msc = msc_match.group(1).strip().strip('.')
+            msc = msc_match.group(1).strip().strip('.').strip()
             msc = re.split(r', |;', msc)
         else:
             msc = None
@@ -100,7 +200,7 @@ def process_article(url):
         if keywords_match:
             keywords = keywords_match.group(1).strip().replace('\n', '')
             keywords = re.split(r', |;', keywords)
-            keywords = [keyword.strip().strip('.') for keyword in keywords]
+            keywords = [re.sub(r'\s+', ' ', keyword.strip().strip('.')).strip() for keyword in keywords]
         else:
             keywords = None
 
@@ -113,6 +213,79 @@ def process_article(url):
         # Article_id
         article_id = str(uuid.uuid4())
 
+        # Author info
+        authors = []
+        table = article_soup.find('table')
+        if table:
+            for row in table.find_all('tr'):
+                cells = [cell.text.strip() for cell in row.find_all('td')]
+                for cell in cells:
+                    cell = cell.split("\n")
+                    cell = [element.replace('email: ', '') for element in cell]
+                    cell = [c.strip() for c in cell]
+
+                    # Data processing
+                    authors.append(cell[0])
+                    name = cell[0].split(" ")
+                    affiliation = ', '.join(cell[1:-1])
+                    affiliation = re.sub(r'^[^a-zA-Z]*', '', re.sub(r'\s+', ' ', re.sub(r',+', ',', affiliation))).strip()
+                    email_match = re.search(r'[\w.-]+@[\w.-]+', cell[-1])
+                    email = email_match.group() if email_match else None
+
+                    author_data = {
+                        "author_id": str(uuid.uuid4()),
+                        "from_article": article_id,
+                        "firstname": name[0],
+                        "lastname": name[-1],
+                        "middlename": name[1:len(name) - 1] if len(name) > 2 else None,
+                        "affiliation": [{
+                            "year": volume,
+                            "affiliation": affiliation,
+                            "email": email,
+                        }]
+                    }
+                    authorData.append(author_data)
+        # If no author table
+        else:
+            pattern = r'<hr>(.*?)<hr>'
+            matches = str(re.findall(pattern, html, re.DOTALL))
+            if matches:
+                matches = matches.replace('["', '').replace('"]', '').replace('[\'', '').replace('\']', '')
+                matches = matches.split("<p>")
+
+                for match in matches:
+                    match = re.sub(r'<[^>]+>', '', match)
+                    match = match.lstrip("\\n ").rstrip("\\n ").strip()
+                    match = match.split("\\n")
+                    match = [element.replace('email: ', '') for element in match]
+                    match = [m.strip() for m in match]
+
+                    # Data processing
+                    authors.append(match[0])
+                    name = match[0].split(" ")
+                    affiliation = ''.join(match[1:-1]).lstrip(",").rstrip(",").strip()
+                    affiliation = re.sub(r'^[^a-zA-Z]*', '', re.sub(r'\s+', ' ', re.sub(r',+', ',', affiliation))).strip()
+                    email_match = re.search(r'[\w.-]+@[\w.-]+', match[-1])
+                    email = email_match.group() if email_match else None
+
+                    author_data = {
+                        "author_id": str(uuid.uuid4()),
+                        "from_article": article_id,
+                        "firstname": name[0],
+                        "lastname": name[-1],
+                        "middlename": name[1:len(name) - 1] if len(name) > 2 else None,
+                        "affiliation": [{
+                            "year": volume,
+                            "affiliation": affiliation,
+                            "email": email,
+                        }]
+                    }
+                    authorData.append(author_data)
+            else:
+                print("AUTHOR SEARCHING ERROR:", article_url)
+                return
+
+        # Article info
         article_data = {
             "article_id": article_id,
             "title": title,
@@ -132,79 +305,79 @@ def process_article(url):
         }
         articleData.append(article_data)
 
-        # Author info
-        table = soup.find('table')
-        for row in table.find_all('tr'):
-            cells = [cell.text.strip() for cell in row.find_all('td')]
-            for cell in cells:
-                cell = cell.split("\n")
-                cell = [element.replace('email: ', '') for element in cell]
-                cell = [c.strip() for c in cell]
-
-                # Data processing
-                name = cell[0].split(" ")
-                affiliation = ', '.join(cell[1:-1])
-                email = cell[-1]
-
-                author_data = {
-                    "author_id": str(uuid.uuid4()),
-                    "from_article": article_id,
-                    "firstname": name[0],
-                    "lastname": name[-1],
-                    "middlename": name[1:len(name) - 1] if len(name) > 2 else None,
-                    "affiliation": [{
-                        "year": volume,
-                        "affiliation": affiliation,
-                        "email": email,
-                    }]
-                }
-                authorData.append(author_data)
-
-        # Save the data periodically based on batch size
-        if len(articleData) % batch_size == 0:
-            ejde_save.save_data(articleData, "Article_TS", str(uuid.uuid4()) + ".json")
-            articleData.clear()
-
-        if len(authorData) % batch_size == 0:
-            ejde_save.save_data(authorData, "Author_TS", str(uuid.uuid4()) + ".json")
-            authorData.clear()
-
 
 index = "https://ejde.math.txstate.edu/indexleft.html"
 response = requests.get(index)
 soup = BeautifulSoup(response.content, 'html.parser')
 
-# Find all the URL links under the first (Volumes) section
+# Find all the URL links under the first Volume section
 volume_links = soup.select('font > a[href]')
-
 # Extract and store the URLs in a list using list comprehension
 url_list = ["https://ejde.math.txstate.edu/" + link['href'] for link in volume_links[1:]][::-1]
 
+# Initialize lists
 authorData = []
 articleData = []
+failedData = []
+totallyFailedData = []
+failedVolData = []
+failedFormatData = []
+
+# Initialize variables for counting
+authorNum = 0
+articleNum = 0
 
 batch_size = 100  # Number of articles to process before saving
 executor = ThreadPoolExecutor(max_workers=25)  # Set the number of worker threads
 
 # Process each URL using multithreading
-futures = [executor.submit(process_article, url) for url in url_list]
+futures = [executor.submit(process_volume, url) for url in url_list]
 
 # Wait for all tasks to complete
 for future in as_completed(futures):
     try:
         future.result()
-    except Exception as e:
+    except Exception as vol_err:
-        print("An error occurred:", str(e))
+        print("VOLUME PROCESSING ERROR:", str(vol_err))
+
+# Retry failed processing paper
+for data in failedData:
+    articleTitle = data["title"]
+    articleUrl = data["URL"]
+    try:
+        process_article(articleTitle, articleUrl)
+    except Exception as retry_err:
+        print("ARTICLE RETRYING FAILURE:", str(retry_err))
+        totally_fail = {
+            "title": articleTitle,
+            "URL": articleUrl,
+        }
+        totallyFailedData.append(totally_fail)
 
 # Save remaining data
 if len(articleData) > 0:
     ejde_save.save_data(articleData, "Article_TS", str(uuid.uuid4()) + ".json")
     print("COMPLETE: All EJDE article data has been saved to ./ejde_buffer/Article_TS/")
+    print("Total fetched paper:", len(articleData) + articleNum)
 
 if len(authorData) > 0:
     ejde_save.save_data(authorData, "Author_TS", str(uuid.uuid4()) + ".json")
     print("COMPLETE: All EJDE author data has been saved to ./ejde_buffer/Author_TS/")
+    print("Total fetched author:", len(authorData) + authorNum)
+
+# Save error record
+if len(totallyFailedData) > 0:
+    ejde_save.save_data(failedData, "", "Failed_article_record.json")
+    print("Total failed processing paper:", len(totallyFailedData))
+
+if len(failedVolData) > 0:
+    ejde_save.save_data(failedVolData, "", "Failed_volume_record.json")
+    print("Total failed fetching volume:", len(failedVolData))
+
+if len(failedFormatData) > 0:
+    ejde_save.save_data(failedFormatData, "", "Failed_format_record.json")
+    print("Total failed searching article:", len(failedFormatData))
 
 # Transfer to large file and delete the temporary storage files
 ejde_save.Transf()
-ejde_save.delete()
+# ejde_save.delete()