#!/usr/bin/env python # -*- coding: utf-8 -*- """ Given an arXiv paper url this script: 1. Downloads the paper 2. Strips the timestamp 3. Crops the pdf to remove unnecessary borders 4. Shrinks the pdf to reduce the filesize 5. Renames it using the format: '_'.join(author_lastnames) + '_-_' + title + '_' + year.pdf 6. Uploads it to the reMarkable using rMapi. Author: G.J.J. van den Burg Date: 2019-02-02 License: MIT """ import PyPDF2 import argparse import bs4 import os import re import requests import shutil import subprocess import sys import tempfile import time import titlecase import urllib.parse from loguru import logger GITHUB_URL = "https://github.com/GjjvdBurg/arxiv2remarkable" HEADERS = { "User-Agent": "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_10_1) " "AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/39.0.2171.95 " "Safari/537.36" } def exception(msg): print("ERROR: " + msg, file=sys.stderr) print("Error occurred. Exiting.", file=sys.stderr) raise SystemExit(1) def arxiv_url(url): """Check if the url is to an arXiv page. >>> validate_url("https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.11242") True >>> validate_url("https://arxiv.org/pdf/1811.11242.pdf") True >>> validate_url("http://arxiv.org/abs/1811.11242") True >>> validate_url("http://arxiv.org/pdf/1811.11242.pdf") True >>> validate_url("https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.11242v1") True >>> validate_url("https://arxiv.org/pdf/1811.11242v1.pdf") True >>> validate_url("https://gertjanvandenburg.com") False """ m = re.match( "https?://arxiv.org/(abs|pdf)/\d{4}\.\d{4,5}(v\d+)?(\.pdf)?", url ) return not m is None def pmc_url(url): m = re.fullmatch( "https?://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC\d+.*", url ) return not m is None def acm_url(url): m = re.fullmatch("https?://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm\?id=\d+", url) return not m is None def valid_url(url): try: result = urllib.parse.urlparse(url) return all([result.scheme, result.netloc, result.path]) except: return False def check_file_is_pdf(filename): try: PyPDF2.PdfFileReader(open(filename, "rb")) return True except PyPDF2.utils.PdfReadError: return False def get_arxiv_urls(url): """Get the pdf and abs url from any given arXiv url """ if re.match("https?://arxiv.org/abs/\d{4}\.\d{4,5}(v\d+)?", url): abs_url = url pdf_url = url.replace("abs", "pdf") + ".pdf" elif re.match("https?://arxiv.org/pdf/\d{4}\.\d{4,5}(v\d+)?\.pdf", url): abs_url = url[:-4].replace("pdf", "abs") pdf_url = url else: exception("Couldn't figure out arXiv urls.") return pdf_url, abs_url def get_pmc_urls(url): """Get the pdf and html url from a given PMC url """ if re.match( "https?://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC\d+/pdf/nihms\d+\.pdf", url, ): idx = url.index("pdf") abs_url = url[: idx - 1] pdf_url = url elif re.match("https?://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC\d+/?", url): abs_url = url pdf_url = url.rstrip("/") + "/pdf" # it redirects, usually else: exception("Couldn't figure out PMC urls.") return pdf_url, abs_url def get_acm_pdf_url(url): page = get_page_with_retry(url) soup = bs4.BeautifulSoup(page, "html.parser") thea = None for a in soup.find_all("a"): if a.get("name") == "FullTextPDF": thea = a break if thea is None: return None href = thea.get("href") if href.startswith("http"): return href else: return "https://dl.acm.org/" + href def get_acm_urls(url): if re.match("https?://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm\?id=\d+", url): abs_url = url pdf_url = get_acm_pdf_url(url) if pdf_url is None: exception("Couldn't extract PDF url from ACM citation page.") else: exception( "Couldn't figure out ACM urls, please provide a URL of the " "format: http(s)://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=..." ) return pdf_url, abs_url def get_page_with_retry(url): """Get the content of an url, retrying up to five times on failure. """ def retry(url, count): if count < 5: logger.info( "Caught error for url %s. Retrying in 5 seconds." % url ) time.sleep(5) else: exception("Failed to download url: %s" % url) count = 0 while True: count += 1 try: res = requests.get(url, headers=HEADERS) except requests.exceptions.ConnectionError: retry(url, count) continue if res.ok: logger.info("Downloading url: %s" % url) return res.content else: retry(url, count) def download_url(url, filename): """Download the content of an url and save it to a filename """ logger.info("Downloading file at url: %s" % url) content = get_page_with_retry(url) with open(filename, "wb") as fid: fid.write(content) def dearxiv(input_file, pdftk_path="pdftk"): """Remove the arXiv timestamp from a pdf""" logger.info("Removing arXiv timestamp") basename = os.path.splitext(input_file)[0] uncompress_file = basename + "_uncompress.pdf" status = subprocess.call( [pdftk_path, input_file, "output", uncompress_file, "uncompress"] ) if not status == 0: exception("pdftk failed to uncompress the pdf.") with open(uncompress_file, "rb") as fid: data = fid.read() # Remove the text element data = re.sub( b"\(arXiv:\d{4}\.\d{4,5}v\d\s+\[\w+\.\w+\]\s+\d{1,2}\s\w{3}\s\d{4}\)Tj", b"()Tj", data, ) # Remove the URL element data = re.sub( b"<<\\n\/URI \(http://arxiv\.org/abs/\d{4}\.\d{4,5}v\d\)\\n\/S /URI\\n>>\\n", b"", data, ) removed_file = basename + "_removed.pdf" with open(removed_file, "wb") as oid: oid.write(data) output_file = basename + "_dearxiv.pdf" status = subprocess.call( [pdftk_path, removed_file, "output", output_file, "compress"] ) if not status == 0: exception("pdftk failed to compress the pdf.") return output_file def crop_pdf(filepath, pdfcrop_path="pdfcrop"): logger.info("Cropping pdf file") status = subprocess.call( [pdfcrop_path, "--margins", "15 40 15 15", filepath], stdout=subprocess.DEVNULL, ) if not status == 0: logger.warning("Failed to crop the pdf file at: %s" % filepath) return filepath cropped_file = os.path.splitext(filepath)[0] + "-crop.pdf" if not os.path.exists(cropped_file): logger.warning( "Can't find cropped file '%s' where expected." % cropped_file ) return filepath return cropped_file def shrink_pdf(filepath, gs_path="gs"): logger.info("Shrinking pdf file") output_file = os.path.splitext(filepath)[0] + "-shrink.pdf" status = subprocess.call( [ "gs", "-sDEVICE=pdfwrite", "-dCompatibilityLevel=1.4", "-dPDFSETTINGS=/printer", "-dNOPAUSE", "-dBATCH", "-dQUIET", "-sOutputFile=%s" % output_file, filepath, ] ) if not status == 0: logger.warning("Failed to shrink the pdf file") return filepath return output_file def get_paper_info_arxiv(url): """ Extract the paper's authors, title, and publication year """ logger.info("Getting paper info from arXiv") page = get_page_with_retry(url) soup = bs4.BeautifulSoup(page, "html.parser") authors = [ x["content"] for x in soup.find_all("meta", {"name": "citation_author"}) ] authors = [x.split(",")[0].strip() for x in authors] title = soup.find_all("meta", {"name": "citation_title"})[0]["content"] date = soup.find_all("meta", {"name": "citation_date"})[0]["content"] return dict(title=title, date=date, authors=authors) def get_paper_info_pmc(url): """ Extract the paper's authors, title, and publication year """ logger.info("Getting paper info from PMC") page = get_page_with_retry(url) soup = bs4.BeautifulSoup(page, "html.parser") authors = [ x["content"] for x in soup.find_all("meta", {"name": "citation_authors"}) ] # We only use last names, and this method is a guess at best. I'm open to # more advanced approaches. authors = [x.strip().split(" ")[-1].strip() for x in authors[0].split(",")] title = soup.find_all("meta", {"name": "citation_title"})[0]["content"] date = soup.find_all("meta", {"name": "citation_date"})[0]["content"] if re.match("\w+\ \d{4}", date): date = date.split(" ")[-1] else: date = date.replace(" ", "_") return dict(title=title, date=date, authors=authors) def get_paper_info_acm(url): """ Extract the paper's authors, title, and publication year """ logger.info("Getting paper info from ACM") page = get_page_with_retry(url) soup = bs4.BeautifulSoup(page, "html.parser") authors = [ x["content"] for x in soup.find_all("meta", {"name": "citation_authors"}) ] # We only use last names, and this method is a guess. I'm open to more # advanced approaches. authors = [x.strip().split(",")[0].strip() for x in authors[0].split(";")] title = soup.find_all("meta", {"name": "citation_title"})[0]["content"] date = soup.find_all("meta", {"name": "citation_date"})[0]["content"] if not re.match("\d{2}/\d{2}/\d{4}", date.strip()): logger.warning( "Couldn't extract year from ACM page, please raise an " "issue on GitHub so I can fix it: %s", GITHUB_URL, ) date = date.strip().split("/")[-1] return dict(title=title, date=date, authors=authors) def generate_filename(info): """ Generate a nice filename for a paper given the info dict """ # we assume that the list of authors is lastname only. logger.info("Generating output filename") if len(info["authors"]) > 3: author_part = info["authors"][0] + "_et_al" else: author_part = "_".join(info["authors"]) author_part = author_part.replace(" ", "_") title = info["title"].replace(",", "").replace(":", "").replace(" ", "_") title_part = titlecase.titlecase(title) year_part = info["date"].split("/")[0] return author_part + "_-_" + title_part + "_" + year_part + ".pdf" def upload_to_rm(filepath, remarkable_dir="/", rmapi_path="rmapi"): remarkable_dir = remarkable_dir.rstrip("/") logger.info("Starting upload to reMarkable") if remarkable_dir: status = subprocess.call( [rmapi_path, "mkdir", remarkable_dir], stdout=subprocess.DEVNULL ) if not status == 0: exception( "Creating directory %s on reMarkable failed" % remarkable_dir ) status = subprocess.call( [rmapi_path, "put", filepath, remarkable_dir + "/"], stdout=subprocess.DEVNULL, ) if not status == 0: exception("Uploading file %s to reMarkable failed" % filepath) logger.info("Upload successful.") def parse_args(): parser = argparse.ArgumentParser( formatter_class=argparse.ArgumentDefaultsHelpFormatter ) parser.add_argument( "-v", "--verbose", help="be verbose", action="store_true" ) parser.add_argument( "-n", "--no-upload", help="don't upload to the reMarkable, save the output in current working dir", action="store_true", ) parser.add_argument( "-d", "--debug", help="debug mode, doesn't upload to reMarkable", action="store_true", ) parser.add_argument( "--filename", help="Filename to use for the file on reMarkable", default=None, ) parser.add_argument( "-p", "--remarkable-path", help="directory on reMarkable to put the file (created if missing)", dest="remarkable_dir", default="/", ) parser.add_argument( "--rmapi", help="path to rmapi executable", default="rmapi" ) parser.add_argument( "--pdfcrop", help="path to pdfcrop executable", default="pdfcrop" ) parser.add_argument( "--pdftk", help="path to pdftk executable", default="pdftk" ) parser.add_argument("--gs", help="path to gs executable", default="gs") parser.add_argument( "input", help="url to an arxiv paper, url to pdf, or existing pdf file" ) return parser.parse_args() @logger.catch def main(): args = parse_args() if os.path.exists(args.input): mode = "local_file" elif arxiv_url(args.input): mode = "arxiv_url" elif pmc_url(args.input): mode = "pmc_url" elif acm_url(args.input): mode = "acm_url" elif valid_url(args.input): if args.filename is None: exception( "Filename must be provided with pdf url (use --filename)" ) mode = "pdf_url" else: exception("Input not a valid url, arxiv url, or existing file.") if not args.verbose: logger.remove(0) start_wd = os.getcwd() with tempfile.TemporaryDirectory() as working_dir: if mode == "local_file": shutil.copy(args.input, working_dir) filename = os.path.basename(args.input) clean_filename = args.filename if args.filename else filename os.chdir(working_dir) if mode == "arxiv_url": pdf_url, abs_url = get_arxiv_urls(args.input) filename = "paper.pdf" download_url(pdf_url, filename) if args.filename: clean_filename = args.filename else: paper_info = get_paper_info_arxiv(abs_url) clean_filename = generate_filename(paper_info) if mode == "pmc_url": pdf_url, abs_url = get_pmc_urls(args.input) filename = "paper.pdf" download_url(pdf_url, filename) if args.filename: clean_filename = args.filename else: paper_info = get_paper_info_pmc(abs_url) clean_filename = generate_filename(paper_info) if mode == "acm_url": pdf_url, abs_url = get_acm_urls(args.input) filename = "paper.pdf" download_url(pdf_url, filename) if args.filename: clean_filename = args.filename else: paper_info = get_paper_info_acm(abs_url) clean_filename = generate_filename(paper_info) if mode == "pdf_url": filename = "paper.pdf" download_url(args.input, filename) if not check_file_is_pdf(filename): exception("Input url doesn't point to valid pdf file.") clean_filename = args.filename dearxived = dearxiv(filename, pdftk_path=args.pdftk) cropped = crop_pdf(dearxived, pdfcrop_path=args.pdfcrop) shrinked = shrink_pdf(cropped) shutil.move(shrinked, clean_filename) if args.debug: print("Paused in debug mode in dir: %s" % working_dir) print("Press enter to exit.") return input() if args.no_upload: if os.path.exists(os.path.join(start_wd, clean_filename)): tmpfname = os.path.splitext(filename)[0] + "_cropped.pdf" shutil.move(clean_filename, os.path.join(start_wd, tmpfname)) else: shutil.move(clean_filename, start_wd) else: upload_to_rm( clean_filename, remarkable_dir=args.remarkable_dir, rmapi_path=args.rmapi, ) if __name__ == "__main__": main()