manuscripts-tracker is a set of functions that collect submissions from multiple preprints platforms online. Those include: arXiv, bioRxiv, medRxiv, EarthArXiv, SocArXiv, PsyArXiv, NBER, Preprints.org and F1000Research. Those utilities will also infer the gender of the authors and identify those that are covid related.
The only step required to use the code in the repository is to install Firefox on your computer if you don't have it, and download the geckdriver (https://github.com/mozilla/geckodriver/releases) in the tools/ directory.
The first time you launch the code, you need to launch it with the init option, and you need to pass it a date in the format YYYY-mm-dd where it will start to collect the manuscripts metadata.
python main_gender.py init 2019-01-01After that, you can either update the files by running the script with the all mode sporadically, or with the periodic mode to have the script update the data automatically every 24 hours. The script will only collect the data for the days since the last collected data for each repository.
python main_gender.py all