martinstefanik / arxivist

Simple CLI tool for downloading and naming papers from arxiv.org.

Arxivist

A simple command line tool for downloading papers from arXiv and naming them with a chosen naming convention. The naming convention is currently fixed to be: '{title} - {family name of author 1}, {family name of author 2} ({year of publication}).pdf'.

Installation

The tool can be installed manually using pip by downloading/cloning the repo and by running

pip install --user .

inside the directory. The directory can be removed after the installation is complete.

Alternatively, if git is installed on the system, arxivist can also be installed by running

pip install --user git+https://github.com/martinstefanik/arxivist

In order to remove arxivist, simply run

pip uninstall arxivist

Usage

Details about the usage of the tool can be obtained by running arxivist --help.

Examples of a call are given by

arxivist --dir ~/Downloads 2102.00021
arxivist --dir ~/Downloads https://arxiv.org/pdf/2102.00021.pdf

Both of these calls download a paper with arXiv ID of 2102.00021 to ~/Downloads and name it Security in Quantum Cryptography - Portmann, Renner (2021).pdf.