arΧivBot, the arXiv Discord bot.

Save your team the trouble of searching for the most recent research papers. Deploy arΧivBot and get a Discord message for every paper submitted to arXiv.org that might be relevant according to your own preferences.

To activate the bot:

1. 🚀 make a new application in the Discord activation portal, create a bot and add it to your Discord server.
2. 🛂 Copy the bot's key into a file called key.py which has the following contents:

    key = "<YOUR_SECRET_BOT_KEY_GOES_HERE>"
   

   Alternatively you an add a key in cfg.yml.
3. 📦 Make sure you have installed the necessary Python packages (see requirements.txt) in your Python environment.
4. ⚡️ Run python3 bot.py.
5. 🎉 Enjoy.

Have a look at cfg.yml for a bunch of parameters you can tweak, or just ask arΧivBot to do it for you via its Discord interface. In the default setting the bot will respond to messages starting with !arXiv.

References

• The initial setup of this bot has been inspired by this repository by @perara.
• More information on the used Python interface for Discord.
• More information on the used Python interface for arXiv.
• More information on the used arXiv API.