diff --git a/automation/mdms.py b/automation/mdms.py
index 8f0391ad206df8ae9212564f758e5f49f2850af2..397966a04368fbed9e0e99dac43a7b956b538b89 100644
--- a/automation/mdms.py
+++ b/automation/mdms.py
@@ -5,10 +5,7 @@ import requests
 import bs4
 from datetime import datetime
 from enum import Enum, unique
-
-# "curl -s -X POST -d 'id=" + docID + "&id_meeting=' -u $MPEG_LOGIN:$MPEG_PWD https://dms.mpeg.expert/doc_end_user/current_document.php"
-# "curl -s -X POST -d 'search_title=&search_number=" + contrNr + "&search_category=&search_author=&search_id_group=1&search_sub_group=1&id_meeting=&submit=Search&meeting=' -u $MPEG_LOGIN:$MPEG_PWD https://dms.mpeg.expert/doc_end_user/searchAcross.php"
-
+import re
 
 BASE_URL = 'https://dms.mpeg.expert/doc_end_user/'
 MEETINGS_URL = urljoin(BASE_URL, 'all_meeting.php')
@@ -60,6 +57,37 @@ class MDMSParser:
         return []
     return meetings
 
+  def parse_author_entry(self, author_entry):
+    '''
+    Search entry string for an email, remove it from the name and clean up
+    Return a tuple('name', 'email')
+    '''
+    author_entry = author_entry.strip()
+    if len(author_entry) == 0:
+      return None
+    email = None
+    match = re.search(r'[\w\.-]+@[\w\.-]+', author_entry)
+    if match: # email found
+      email = match.group(0)
+      author_entry = author_entry.replace(email, '') # remove email from the name
+    # remove everything what is inside () or []
+    author_entry = re.sub(r'[\(\[].*?[\)\]]', '', author_entry)
+    # remove all non ASCII characters
+    author_entry = re.sub(r'[^\x00-\x7F]+', '', author_entry)
+    author_entry = author_entry.strip()
+    return (author_entry, email)
+
+  def try_parsing_date(self, text):
+    '''
+    Try parsing the timestamp, if not possible return None
+    '''
+    for fmt in ('%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S', 'Y-%m-%d'):
+      try:
+        return datetime.strptime(text.strip(), fmt)
+      except ValueError:
+        pass
+    return None
+
   def parse_input_docs(self, html):
     docs = []
     soup = bs4.BeautifulSoup(html, features = 'lxml')
@@ -93,26 +121,45 @@ class MDMSParser:
         mdms_id = int(parse_qs(parsed_href.query)['id'][0])
 
         # get timestamp of the last uploaded version
-        last_version_uploaded = None
-        if len(cols[2].text.strip()) > 0:
-          last_version_uploaded = datetime.strptime(cols[2].text.strip(), '%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S')
-        
+        last_version_uploaded = self.try_parsing_date(cols[2].text)
+        created_timestamp = self.try_parsing_date(cols[1].text)
+
         # get authors
         authors = []
         for entry in cols[5].contents:
           if isinstance(entry, bs4.Tag):
-            parsed_href = urlparse(entry['href'])
+            parsed_href = entry.text
+            email = None
+            name = None
+            try:
+              parsed_href = urlparse(entry['href'])
+              email = parsed_href.path
+              author_data = self.parse_author_entry(entry.text)
+              name = entry.text
+              if author_data:
+                name = author_data[0] # clean version of the name
+                # sometimes people type name and email wrong in MDMS and they are flipped
+                if not '@' in email and author_data[1]:
+                  name = email
+                  email = author_data[1]
+            except KeyError:
+              # sometimes Author's field is formatted with fake html tags.
+              print('Bad HTML format in Authors field: ', entry)
+              name = entry.text
+              pass 
+            
             authors.append({
-              'name': entry.text,
-              'email': parsed_href.path
+              'name': name,
+              'email': email
             })
           else:
-            name = entry.string.replace(',', '').strip()
-            if len(name) > 0:
-              authors.append({
-                'name': entry.string.replace(',', '').strip(),
-                'email': ''
-            })
+            for author_entry in entry.string.replace(' and ', ',').split(','):
+              author_data = self.parse_author_entry(author_entry)
+              if author_data:
+                authors.append({
+                  'name': author_data[0],
+                  'email': author_data[1]
+                })
         
         # get latest document link (if available)
         latest_url = None
@@ -123,7 +170,7 @@ class MDMSParser:
         docs.append({
           'mdms_id': mdms_id,
           'document': cols[0].text,
-          'created': datetime.strptime(cols[1].text, '%Y-%m-%d %H:%M:%S'),
+          'created': created_timestamp,
           'last_version_uploaded': last_version_uploaded,
           'sub_group_text': cols[3].text,
           'title': cols[4].text.strip(),
diff --git a/find_contributors.py b/find_contributors.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..c78d5d2b65b25c0517d8fe49ed51949a8e5d71f9
--- /dev/null
+++ b/find_contributors.py
@@ -0,0 +1,35 @@
+from automation import mdms
+
+'''
+This is an example how to get a list of authors who had input documents 
+with a specific substring in the title
+'''
+
+# meetings with the smaller number will be ignored
+LAST_MEETING_NUMBER = 42
+
+TITLE_WHITELIST= ['ISOBMFF', 'BMFF', '14496-12', 'file format', 'MP4', 'ISOBMF', 'ISO Base']
+
+authors = {}
+
+def document_is_relevant(title, filter_strings):
+  return any(sub.lower().strip() in title.lower().strip() for sub in filter_strings)
+
+meetings = mdms.get_meetings()
+for meeting in meetings:
+  if meeting['number'] < LAST_MEETING_NUMBER:
+    continue
+  print('process meegting', meeting['number'])
+  input_docs = mdms.get_input_documents(meeting['id'])
+  for doc in input_docs:
+    if not document_is_relevant(doc['title'], TITLE_WHITELIST):
+      continue
+    for author in doc['authors']:
+      if author['name'] in authors:
+        authors[author['name']].append(doc)
+      else:
+        authors[author['name']] = [doc]
+
+# print author names and number of contributions
+for author in authors:
+  print(author, ' :', len(authors[author]))
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