From c804c6fd2566b10e567f089cfe6ffa3f1b0daabb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: TheHedgeify <thehedgeify@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 15 Sep 2026 15:58:45 +0200
Subject: [PATCH 1/2] finding issues, but difficulty finding emails

---
 utils/github_issue_scraper.py | 225 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
 1 file changed, 225 insertions(+)
 create mode 100644 utils/github_issue_scraper.py

diff --git a/utils/github_issue_scraper.py b/utils/github_issue_scraper.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..1917818
--- /dev/null
+++ b/utils/github_issue_scraper.py
@@ -0,0 +1,225 @@
+import requests
+import re
+from urllib.parse import urlparse
+from bs4 import BeautifulSoup
+from urllib.parse import urlparse
+
+URL_PATTERN = re.compile(r"https?://[^\s<>\[\]()\"']+")
+REPO = "OpenOptimizationOrg/OPL"
+LABEL = "new benchmark / problem"
+EMAIL_RE = re.compile(r"\b[A-Za-z0-9._%+-]+@[A-Za-z0-9.-]+\.[A-Za-z]{2,}\b")
+
+
+def get_issues(repo, label, token=None):
+    """
+    Get all issues from a GitHub repository with a specific label.
+    repo: GitHub repository in the format "owner/repo"
+    label: label to filter issues by
+    token: optional GitHub personal access token
+    """
+    url = f"https://api.github.com/repos/{repo}/issues"
+
+    headers = {"Accept": "application/vnd.github+json"}
+
+    if token:
+        headers["Authorization"] = f"Bearer {token}"
+
+    issues = []
+    page = 1
+
+    while True:
+        params = {
+            "labels": label,
+            "state": "all",
+            "per_page": 100,
+            "page": page,
+        }
+
+        response = requests.get(url, headers=headers, params=params)
+        response.raise_for_status()
+
+        batch = response.json()
+
+        if not batch:
+            break
+
+        issues.extend(batch)
+        page += 1
+
+    return issues
+
+
+def extract_links(text: str) -> list[str]:
+    if not text:
+        return []
+    links = URL_PATTERN.findall(
+        text
+    )  # Remove punctuation commonly attached to URLs in prose
+    return [link.rstrip(".,;:!?") for link in links]
+
+
+def find_paper(citation: str):
+    if not citation:
+        return None
+    url = "https://api.openalex.org/works"
+
+    params = {
+        "search": citation,
+        "per-page": 10,
+    }
+
+    r = requests.get(url, params=params)
+    r.raise_for_status()
+
+    results = r.json()["results"]
+
+    if not results:
+        return None
+
+    # Verify that the result matches enough
+    res = results[0]
+    print(res["relevance_score"])
+    if res["relevance_score"] < 0.5:
+        return None
+    corresponding_authors = [
+        author["author"]
+        for author in res["authorships"]
+        if author.get("is_corresponding", False)
+    ]
+    # if no corresponding authors, take the first author
+    if not corresponding_authors:
+        corresponding_authors = [
+            author["author"]
+            for author in res["authorships"]
+            if author.get("author_position", "") == "first"
+        ]
+    print(corresponding_authors)
+
+
+def get_author_profile(openalex_author_id: str):
+    """Get author metadata from OpenAlex."""
+    url = f"https://api.openalex.org/authors/{openalex_author_id}"
+    response = requests.get(url, timeout=30)
+    response.raise_for_status()
+    return response.json()
+
+
+def find_public_email(author_name: str, institution: str | None = None):
+    """
+    Search the web for a publicly listed professional email.
+
+    Returns:
+        {
+            "email": ...,
+            "url": ...,
+            "source": ...
+        }
+        or None
+    """
+
+    query = f'"{author_name}"'
+
+    if institution:
+        query += f' "{institution}"'
+
+    query += " email"
+
+    # DuckDuckGo HTML search
+    search_url = "https://html.duckduckgo.com/html/"
+
+    response = requests.get(
+        search_url,
+        params={"q": query},
+        headers={"User-Agent": "Mozilla/5.0"},
+        timeout=30,
+    )
+    response.raise_for_status()
+    print(response.text)
+
+    soup = BeautifulSoup(response.text, "html.parser")
+
+    results = []
+
+    for result in soup.select(".result"):
+        link = result.select_one(".result__a")
+
+        if not link:
+            continue
+
+        url = link.get("href")
+
+        if not url:
+            continue
+
+        title = link.get_text(" ", strip=True)
+
+        snippet = result.select_one(".result__snippet")
+        snippet = snippet.get_text(" ", strip=True) if snippet else ""
+
+        results.append(
+            {
+                "title": title,
+                "url": url,
+                "snippet": snippet,
+            }
+        )
+
+    print(results)
+
+    # Search the result pages for an explicitly published email
+    for result in results:
+        try:
+            page = requests.get(
+                result["url"],
+                headers={"User-Agent": "Mozilla/5.0"},
+                timeout=15,
+            )
+
+            if not page.ok:
+                continue
+
+            emails = EMAIL_RE.findall(page.text)
+
+            # Remove obvious non-personal/irrelevant addresses
+            emails = [
+                email
+                for email in emails
+                if not any(
+                    x in email.lower()
+                    for x in [
+                        "example.com",
+                        "example.org",
+                        "sentry.io",
+                        "wixpress.com",
+                        "cloudflare",
+                    ]
+                )
+            ]
+
+            if emails:
+                return {
+                    "email": emails[0],
+                    "url": result["url"],
+                    "source": result["title"],
+                }
+
+        except requests.RequestException:
+            continue
+
+    return None
+
+
+issues = get_issues(
+    repo=REPO,
+    label=LABEL,
+)
+
+
+"""
+for issue in issues:
+    links = extract_links(issue.get("body", ""))
+    if not links:
+        paper = find_paper(issue.get("body", ""))
+    print(issue["number"], issue["title"])
+    print(links)
+"""

From 105bf09df0616bc8fa8d1362906dc28a14c6c4aa Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: TheHedgeify <thehedgeify@gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 12 Oct 2026 14:40:53 +0200
Subject: [PATCH 2/2] current version

---
 utils/github_issue_scraper.py | 2 ++
 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)

diff --git a/utils/github_issue_scraper.py b/utils/github_issue_scraper.py
index 1917818..443f596 100644
--- a/utils/github_issue_scraper.py
+++ b/utils/github_issue_scraper.py
@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
+# pip install requests bs4
+
 import requests
 import re
 from urllib.parse import urlparse