vanity-bot/README.md

arxiv-vanity-bot for telegram

Telegram for some reason doesn't show snippets for links from arxiv.org site. This bot created to get work around of this problem. It is useful to having this bot in chats where you can share links from arxiv and bot will replying on that messages with some kind of snippets with title and description of paper and link to mobile friendly service for arxiv papers - arxiv-vanity.com

Ready to use bot: t.me/arxiv_vanity_bot

Installation

git clone https://github.com/metya/vanity-bot

After that create file in the root of repository with name "token" and put there text below

API_TOKEN=your_bot_token

And after that just

docker compose up -d

or use enviroments variable with compose instead of token file

docker-compose run -d -e API_TOKEN=your_bot_token bot

Usage

Add your bot in chat where you disscuss arxiv papers and enjoy. Or use my bot t.me/arxiv_vanity_bot

Illustration