Scholar Messenger is a research-focused web application designed to facilitate knowledge sharing, collaboration, and paper recommendations among scholars and researchers. It provides a platform for researchers to connect with peers, discover relevant research papers, and engage in meaningful discussions within their academic community.

• User Registration and Profiles: Users can create accounts, set up their profiles, and define their research interests to receive personalized recommendations and connect with like-minded scholars.

• Paper Recommendations: Scholar Messenger utilizes the IEEE API to fetch research papers based on user interests. Users can explore recommended papers, view abstracts, authors, and access full-text articles when available.

• Real-Time Notifications: Users receive real-time notifications about new papers, collaboration requests, and important deadlines, ensuring they stay updated within their research community.

• Mobile-Friendly Design: Scholar Messenger is responsive and optimized for mobile devices, allowing users to access the platform conveniently on their smartphones and tablets.

• Flask: Python-based web framework used for server-side development.
• SQLite: Lightweight relational database management system for data storage.
• HTML/CSS: Front-end development technologies for creating the user interface and styling.
• JavaScript: Programming language used for interactive elements and client-side functionality.
• Flask-Mail: Extension for Flask to handle email sending functionality.
• Requests: Python library for making HTTP requests to the IEEE API.

1. Clone the repository: git clone https://github.com/stanley07/GoogleScholarScraper.git
2. Navigate to the project directory: cd scholar-messenger
3. Install the required dependencies: pip install -r requirements.txt
4. Set up your SMTP configuration in the myapp.py file.
5. Run the application: python myapp.py
6. Access the application in your browser at http://localhost:5000

Note: Make sure you have Python 3.x and pip installed on your system.

We welcome contributions from the open-source community to enhance Scholar Messenger. If you'd like to contribute, please follow these steps:

1. Fork the repository.
2. Create a new branch for your feature: git checkout -b feature-name
3. Implement your changes and ensure they are well-tested.
4. Commit your changes: git commit -m "Add feature"
5. Push to the branch: git push origin feature-name
6. Submit a pull request explaining your changes.

This project is licensed under the MIT License.

We would like to express our gratitude to the creators and contributors of the libraries and frameworks used in this project. Their work is invaluable and greatly appreciated.

For any inquiries or support, please contact us at [ezebo001@gmail.com]

Thank you for your interest in Scholar Messenger!