astro-ph

Translate and post arXiv articles to various apps

Installation

Use pip or other package manager to install the Python package.

$ pip install astro-ph

Usage

After installation, command line interface, astro-ph, is available, with which you can translate and post arXiv articles to various apps. Note that only slack app is currently available. In this case, you need to create a custom Slack app to get an URL of incoming webhook.

$ astro-ph slack --keywords galaxy,galaxies \
                 --categories astro-ph.GA,astro-ph.IM \
                 --language_to ja \
                 --webhook_url https://hooks.slack.com/services/***/***

The posted article looks like this.

For detailed information, see the built-in help by the following command.

$ astro-ph slack --help

Example

It would be nice to regularly run the command by GitHub Actions. Here is a live example in which daily (2 days ago) arXiv articles in astro-ph.GA and astro-ph.IM are posted to different channels of a Slack workspace.

• a-lab-nagoya/astro-ph-slack: Translate and post arXiv articles to Slack

References

• fkubota/Carrier-Owl: arxiv--> DeepL --> Slack
  • The astro-ph package is highly inspired by their work
• a-lab-nagoya/astro-ph-slack: Translate and post arXiv articles to Slack
  • A live example using the astro-ph package
• pyppeteer/pyppeteer: Headless chrome/chromium automation library (unofficial port of puppeteer)
  • Used for async Chromium operation
• aio-libs/aiohttp: Asynchronous HTTP client/server framework for asyncio and Python
  • Used for async article posts to Slack
• google/python-fire: Python Fire is a library for automatically generating command line interfaces (CLIs) from absolutely any Python object.
  • Used for creating command line interface