arXiv-pyler, collects information of arXiv:Pdf's on the path given by the user, generates a html and pile the pdfs.
This repo still needs further furnishments.
scripts under py2 work normally while others need further check. I will port it to py3 asap and make it work as smoothly as possible.
When a user has lots of pdf downloaded from arXiv.org, all of whose names are something unrecognizable as '1305.5767.pdf' or 'arXiv:hep-th/0612073v2' etc.
Or even worse, if the user renamed some of the files to its title, eg. '1305.5767.pdf' to 'Categories of Massless D-Branes', it might happens that there are two duplicates '1305.5767.pdf','Categories of Massless D-Branes' on the same path and the user does not realize it.
To help one manage the arXive:Pdf's easily, I write this stuff. If you have encountered the situation above, then you are encouraged to try this.
Open the commandline/terminal and type:
python arxiv_pyler.py path/to/folder [commands]
If only the html containing info of the Pdf are needed, then one can stop reading here and use arXiv-pyler.
Up to now, arXiv-pyler will soon implement commands to pile files in different ways.
###Pile commands(To be implemented)
- flatten: put all files in the same directory path/to/folder
- hierarchy: sort all files according to the arXiv category eg. hep-th pdf's are all collected into the hep-th folder.
It runs under Python27. Following packages are required:
- PyPdf2
- htmltag(already included)
- gets the
path/to/file - scans the arXiv:Pdf
- retrieves infomation of the pdf via arXiv api
- generates the html, where users can open the pdf and look up the info's
- Porting to Python33
- Update the GUI version
- Improve the html_generator.py or implement a simple template engine
This folder contains the original version written under Python2.7. The two scripts depends on Pypdf2 and PySide(for the GUI). To make both scripts work, one has to connect to network.