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Scrapers in PUMA


A scraper is a useful function in PUMA that helps you saving publications from external websites to PUMA.

Usage: On an external literature catalogue (e.g. ACM Digital Library), you find a publication that you want to copy to your collection in PUMA. The easiest way is by using the PUMA browser extensions. Click on the PUMA symbol in the browser and choose "Save publication to PUMA".

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You will automatically be redirected to PUMA and the scraper extracts all relevant information about this publication and displays it in the input fields. You can make changes if you want to and finally save the publication by clicking on "save".

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An overview on all supported external websites where information can automatically be extracted by scrapers can be found here.
You can also use the scraping service to extract bibliographical metadata from a website by entering a URL.


Click here to go back to beginner's area and learn more about the basic functions.