diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index 6c18b75..fee3362 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ local/*
 figures/*
 tables/*
 venv*
-
+data/ics_pdfs/
 # Byte-compiled / optimized / DLL files
 __pycache__/
 *.py[cod]
diff --git a/src/generate_dataset/scrape_pdf.py b/src/generate_dataset/scrape_pdf.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..cc426d2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/generate_dataset/scrape_pdf.py
@@ -0,0 +1,155 @@
+import itertools
+import re
+import os
+import numpy as np
+import pandas as pd
+import fitz
+from selenium import webdriver
+from selenium.webdriver.chrome.service import Service
+from webdriver_manager.chrome import ChromeDriverManager
+from selenium.webdriver.chrome.options import Options
+from selenium.webdriver.common.by import By
+from pathlib import Path
+import json
+import time
+
+def read_pdf_and_perform_regex(pdf_path):
+    # Open the PDF file
+    doc = fitz.open(pdf_path)
+    
+    # Get first page
+    rel_text = doc[0].get_text().split('\n')
+    
+    # Clean lines
+    rel_text = [r.strip() for r in rel_text]
+    clean_text = [re.sub(r'\d{1}B', '', r) for r in rel_text]
+    clean_text = [re.sub(r'^Name.*', 'Name:', string) for string in clean_text]
+    clean_text = [re.sub(r'^Role.*', 'Role:', string) for string in clean_text]
+
+    # Find all occurrences of "Name:" and "Role:"
+    name_indices = [i for i, string in enumerate(clean_text) if re.match(r'^Name:', string)]
+    role_indices = [i for i, string in enumerate(clean_text) if re.match(r'^Role:', string)]
+
+    if name_indices:
+        indices = dict(zip(name_indices, role_indices))
+
+        names = [clean_text[(key+1):value] for key, value in indices.items()]
+        names = list(itertools.chain.from_iterable(names))
+        names = [n.strip() for n in names if n != '']
+    else:
+        print(p)
+        names = None
+    # Close the document
+    doc.close()
+    
+    return names
+
+
+def download_pdf_from_url(driver):
+    potential_elements = driver.find_elements(By.TAG_NAME, 'a')
+    pattern = re.compile(r"Download case study PDF")
+    button = [p for p in potential_elements if pattern.search(p.text)][0]
+    button.click()
+
+
+def scrape_secondary_info_from_url(driver):
+    try:
+        secondary_table = driver.find_elements(By.CLASS_NAME, "impact-metadata")
+        element = secondary_table[1]
+        
+        # Find all <dt> elements within the <dl> element
+        dt_elements = element.find_elements(By.TAG_NAME, 'dt')
+
+        # Initialize a list to hold the text of each <dt> element
+        dt_texts = [dt.text for dt in dt_elements]
+        
+        # Find all <dd> elements within the <dl> element
+        dd_elements = element.find_elements(By.TAG_NAME, 'dd')
+
+        # Initialize a list to hold the text of each <dd> element
+        dd_texts = [dd.text for dd in dd_elements]
+        
+        return dict(zip(dt_texts, dd_texts))
+    except:
+        return "None"
+
+
+def scrape_grant_info_from_url(driver):
+    try:
+        grant_funding_table = driver.find_element(
+            By.XPATH, "//h4[text()='Grant funding']/following-sibling::table")
+        return grant_funding_table.text
+    except:
+        return "None"
+
+if __name__ == "__main__":
+
+    # Paths
+    current_file = Path(__file__).resolve()
+    project_root = current_file.parent
+    while not (project_root / '.git').exists():
+        project_root = project_root.parent
+
+    data_path = project_root / 'data'
+    output_path = data_path /  'ics_pdfs'
+
+    # Set up Chrome options
+    chrome_options = Options()
+    prefs = {"download.default_directory" : str(output_path)}
+    chrome_options.add_experimental_option("prefs", prefs)
+
+    # Initialize WebDriver
+    service = Service(ChromeDriverManager().install())
+    driver = webdriver.Chrome(service=service, options=chrome_options)
+
+    # Read data
+    data = pd.read_csv(data_path / 'final' / 'enhanced_ref_data.csv')
+    keys = data['REF impact case study identifier']
+
+    # urls
+    head = 'https://results2021.ref.ac.uk/impact/'
+
+    # setup emtpy dicts for the results
+    grant_dict = dict()
+    aux_dict = dict()
+    names_dict = dict()
+    
+    for key in keys:
+        print(key)
+        url = head + key
+        driver.get(url)
+        time.sleep(1)
+        
+        ## download pdf
+        download_pdf_from_url(driver)
+        
+        ## collect info
+        aux_dict[key] = scrape_secondary_info_from_url(driver)
+        grant_dict[key] = scrape_grant_info_from_url(driver)
+
+    ## Make crosswalk from pdf name to key using date of creation
+    pdf_files = [pdf for pdf in os.listdir(output_path) if '.pdf' in pdf]
+    pdf_files_by_cd = sorted(pdf_files, key=lambda x: os.path.getctime(os.path.join(output_path, x)))
+
+    cw = dict(zip(pdf_files_by_cd, keys))
+
+    ## Read pdfs
+    for p in pdf_files:
+        cw_key = cw[p]
+        names_dict[cw_key]= read_pdf_and_perform_regex(output_path / p)
+
+    ## Write results
+    with open(output_path / 'author_data.jsonl', 'w') as file:
+        for key, value in names_dict.items():
+            json_line = json.dumps({key: value})
+            file.write(json_line + '\n')
+
+    with open(output_path / 'aux_data.jsonl', 'w') as file:
+        for key, value in aux_dict.items():
+            json_line = json.dumps({key: value})
+            file.write(json_line + '\n')
+
+    with open(output_path / 'grant_data.jsonl', 'w') as file:
+        for key, value in grant_dict.items():
+            json_str = json.dumps({key: value})
+            file.write(json_str + '\n')
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