A Watch Dog for academic papers in your slack channels

How to use it

• Create the Webhook URL from here
• Open the example.py and paste the url to the WEBHOOK_URL variable:

# slack webhook URL
WEBHOOK_URL = "https://hooks.slack.com/services/****************"

All done! Run the example.py.

To run WatchDog in daily basis, use the crontab. For example,

• make a dictionary called paper-watch-dog under the $HOME/.cron directory.
• Then, copy the example.py to the directory.
• Edit crontab

crontab -e
0 12 * * * python3 ~/.cron/paper-watch-dog/example.py

How to make your watch list

• The package comes with a default watch list of journals. You can customize it by your own.
• One can read the default watch list by

import PaperWatchDog as pwd 
print(pwd.watch_list)

• The watch list is a list of dictionaries. Each dictionary takes the following pairs of keys and values:
  • "url": The URL for the RSS feed.
  • "journal": Name of journals. The name will be appeared in the slack channel.
  • "color": Hex code. The colour will be used for decolating the post.
  • "thumb": URL for the thumbnail. The picture will be shown with the post.

The resulting dictionary looks like:

    {   
        "journal": "arXiv (Physics Soc Ph)",
         "url": "http://export.arxiv.org/rss/physics.soc-ph",
         "colour": "#2eb886",
         "thumb": "https://pbs.twimg.com/profile_images/958432197987401728/QLeEVLC__400x400.jpg",
    },  

Reference

• https://qiita.com/TatsuyaMizuguchi17/items/35dd3dd1396864006031