Ever wanted to follow arXiv feeds on Slack, but try as you might slackbot was unable to show arXiv updates?

Wonder no more! arXiv decent feeds reads and converts arXiv RSS feeds to valid RSS 2.0 feeds that slackbot will (hopefully) read!

pip install https://github.com/trovao/arxiv-decent-feeds/zipball/master

usage: arxivdf add [-h] url target_file

positional arguments:
  url
  target_file

optional arguments:
  -h, --help   show this help message and exit

For example, to add the cs.LG (Computer Science Learning) feed, one could do:

arxivdf add http://export.arxiv.org/rss/cs.LG\?version\=2.0 cs.LG.rss

arxivdf update

If you added cs.LG as show above, after you can call the command arxivdf generate your feed will be saved to the file cs.LG.rss in the current directory.

Just set up a cron job with to do that. What I'm currently using is, with a python virtualenv (the source ~/venvs/feeds/bin/activate part):

*/5 * * * * (source ~/venvs/feeds/bin/activate ; arxivdf update ; arxivdf generate)