Scibot

A bot for downloading paper from open-access or scihub automatically, with a python companion library.

This work is highly WIP. The pdf are not stored in any way.

Library usage

from scibot import PaperHelper

helper = PaperHelper.from_doi("https://doi.org/10.1145/3375633")
helper.download()

Bot usage

/get_paper ref:doi prefer:oa

The permission needed are : use slash command, send message, attach files.

Hosting

You can either install the library with pip and run the bot with the command scibot (I highly recommand using a systemd unit or any other way to deal with such long-running service)

pip install git+https://gitlab.com/celliern/scibot
scibot

With two mandatory env variable :

BOT_TOKEN=... # You have to create a discord bot
UNPAYWALL_EMAIL=your@email.com

or use the docker file / docker-compose image.

The image is also available at registry.gitlab.com/celliern/scibot : a simple docker container will look like

version: "3"

services:
  scibot:
    image: registry.gitlab.com/celliern/scibot:latest
    environment:
      - BOT_TOKEN=...
      - UNPAYWALL_EMAIL=...
    restart: "unless-stopped"