auto_check_manuscript_status

utils

论文投出去一个多月了，想及时得知审稿情况，每次登陆检查有很麻烦，因此打算用脚本实现自动检查功能。

Headless browser

Use selenium with chromedriver to achieve a headless browser.

check-manuscript-status.pycheck-manuscript-status.py
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from selenium import webdriver
chromedriver = '/Applications/Google Chrome.app/Contents/MacOS/chromedriver'
chrome_options = webdriver.ChromeOptions()
chrome_options.add_argument('--headless')
chrome_options.add_argument('--disable-gpu')
chrome_login=webdriver.Chrome(chromedriver, chrome_options=chrome_options)
chrome_login.get('https://mc.manuscriptcentral.com/jbhi-embs')

Get manuscript status

  • First analyze the login page to locate where to fulfill the user name and password.
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<!-- LOG IN AREA-->
        ...
            <div>
              <h4 class="help-block">User ID</h4>
              <input type="text" class="input-block-level" name="USERID" id="USERID" hidefocus="true" style="outline: none;">
            </div>
            <!-- Password-->
            <div>
              <h4 class="help-block h4special">Password</h4>
              <div class="input-append input-group input-block-level">
                <div class="input-append input-group input-block-level"><input class="passwordField" type="password" name="PASSWORD" id="PASSWORD" hidefocus="true" style="outline: none;"><input type="text" class="passwordField" style="display: none;"><span tabindex="100" title="Show/hide password" class="add-on input-group-addon" style="cursor: pointer;"><i class="icon-eye-open glyphicon glyphicon-eye-open"></i></span></div>
                </div>
                <span>
                  <a href="javascript:setNextPage(&#39;RESET_PASSWORD&#39;);" hidefocus="true" style="outline: none;">Reset Password</a>
                </span>
              </div>
            <hr class="hrthin">
            <!-- Button -->
            <div> 
            <a id="logInButton" class="btn btn-primary" hidefocus="true" style="outline: none;">
              Log In 
            </a>
        ...
check-manuscript-status.pycheck-manuscript-status.py
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# Login
chrome_login.find_element_by_id('USERID').clear()
chrome_login.find_element_by_id('USERID').send_keys(u'username')
chrome_login.find_element_by_id('PASSWORD').clear()
chrome_login.find_element_by_id('PASSWORD').send_keys(u'password')
chrome_login.find_element_by_id('logInButton').click()
  • Then select the Author page as the current page.
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<!--Top Level Nav -->
    ...
                    <li class="nav-link ">
                     <a href="javascript:setDataAndNextPage(&#39;XIK_CUR_ROLE_ID&#39;,&#39;xik_CEvy3hq64RUUemtdi9mg2oQPSBCMD1B7sN94hApF4358&#39;,&#39;AUTHOR_VIEW_MANUSCRIPTS&#39;)" hidefocus="true" style="outline: none;">
                       <i class="fa fa-pencil"></i> Author
                     </a>
                    </li>
    ...
<!--Top Level Nav End -->
check-manuscript-status.pycheck-manuscript-status.py
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chrome_login.find_elements_by_class_name('nav-link ')[6].click()
  • Then locate the status table and get the table contents.
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<!-- common jspf for the most of the author's queues -->
<div class="content-inner-div">
    ...
</div>
check-manuscript-status.pycheck-manuscript-status.py
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table = chrome_login.find_element_by_class_name('content-inner-div').text.split('\n')
  • Finally analyze the table contents to get the manuscript status.

Notify if status changed

Use osascript -e to send notification under Mac OSX.

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os.system("osascript -e 'display notification \"" + s + "\" with title \"" + "Manuscript Status" + "\" sound name \"Submarine\"'")

Use crontab to frequently doing this check, add a crontab task by execute crontab -e and set

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1 * * * * /usr/bin/python /Users/username/Desktop/check-manuscript-status.py