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dennissergeev / atmosscibot

Twitter bot that generates word clouds of new open access publications in atmospheric sciences.
https://twitter.com/AtmosSciBot
MIT License
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AtmosSciBot

Twitter bot that generates word clouds of new open access publications in atmospheric sciences.

The bot parses RSS feeds of scientific journals, downloads new publications in HTML/XML and then builds a word cloud image of the extracted text.

https://twitter.com/AtmosSciBot

On demand generation

(Currently disabled, sorry!) A word cloud can be created if AtmosSciBot is mentioned in a tweet and **a URL to the HTML or XML page of an open-access publication** is included. Note that the URL should directly lead to the HTML page (**NOT** a PDF) with the full text of the publication and **NOT** an abstract (so don't request EGU articles that are still in discussion state)! The tweet has to contain a **short name** of the corresponding journal as a **hashtag**. Only the journals that are in the [list of journals](journal_list.json) are allowed: otherwise the bot would not know how to extract the text from HTML. The tweet also has to contain the following words in any order: "make", "word", "cloud", "please". Example: ``` @AtmosSciBot make wordcloud please #JGRA http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/2015JD024680/full ``` **Note** only **open-access** articles can be processed, otherwise the bot will reply that it is unable to retrieve text. **Note** you may have to wait for a couple of hours until the request is processed. ### Font selection A on-demand generation request can contain a name of Google Font (https://fonts.google.com) and the wordcloud will use the chosen font if **the request is correct**. To choose font, include `[font=]` in the tweet. The word cloud will use the "Regular" (400) style of the font. This option is made possible thanks to this [google-font-download script](https://github.com/neverpanic/google-font-download). Example: ``` @AtmosSciBot make wordcloud please [font=Raleway] #QJRMS https://rmets.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/qj.2911 ``` or (note the spaces) ``` @AtmosSciBot make wordcloud please [font=M PLUS 1p] #QJRMS https://rmets.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/qj.2911 ``` If something is wrong with the font-related request, the wordcloud is created using the default font (https://fonts.google.com/specimen/Chicle).

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