Automating Away Life’s Annoyances

For my CV, I like to include a table of citation metrics from multiple sources (currently Google Scholar, ADS and Web of Science).   Updating these manually, however, is torturous, and feels like something that should be trivially automatable.  I recently went down a rabbit hole of looking for ways to do this with Python, and found that it was trivial (Scholar), straightforward (ADS) and maddening (I’ll leave this as an exercise for the reader). Full notes available here.