scholarly: AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'text'

Python 3.7.3 (default, Mar 26 2019, 21:43:19) 
[GCC 8.2.1 20181127] on linux
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>>> import scholarly
>>> print(next(scholarly.search_author('Steven A. Cholewiak')))
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
  File "/usr/lib/python3.7/site-packages/scholarly/scholarly.py", line 110, in _search_citation_soup
    yield Author(row)
  File "/usr/lib/python3.7/site-packages/scholarly/scholarly.py", line 226, in __init__
    self.name = __data.find('h3', class_='gsc_oai_name').text
AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'text'

OS: Manjaro Linux x86_64

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State: closed
Created 5 years ago
Reactions: 2
Comments: 20

Commits related to this issue

Update scholarly.py Based on a comment in Issue #37 perhaps this will fix the bug — committed to hack-r/scholarly by hack-r 5 years ago

Most upvoted comments

Line 226 original: self.name = _data.find(‘h3’, class=‘gsc_oai_name’).tex modification: self.name = _data.find(‘h3’, class=‘gs_ai_name’).text

please update!

brodderickrodriguez on May 12, 2019

For precisely these situations in the pull request I created last week, the class name is extracted dynamically, instead of being hard coded. If Google changes the class name again, Scholarly should continue working fine. #40

jmlgh on Jun 5, 2019

@hack-r I made that mistake too, it’s gs_ai_name, not gsc_ai_name

BananaLoaf on May 10, 2019

Should be easily resolved by renaming gsc_oai_name to gs_ai_name.

carlocaprini on May 8, 2019

There are five instances that need to be updated: replaces all instances of “gsc_oai” with “gs_ai”.

datacustodian on May 14, 2019