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paperbot
Paperbot is an IRC bot that fetches academic papers. It monitors all conversation for links to scholarly content, then fetches the content and posts a public link. This seems to help enhance the quality of discussion and make us less ignorant.
## deets
All content is scraped using zotero/translators. These are javascript scrapers that work on a large number of academic publisher sites and are actively maintained. Paperbot offloads links to zotero/translation-server, which runs the zotero scrapers headlessly in a gecko and xulrunner environment.
## TODO
It would be nice to use multiple proxies to resolve a pdf request.
## active demo
say hi to paperbot on irc.freenode.net ##hplusroadmap
## license
BSD.