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Note: this only works on Mac OS X.

Inspired by a hack suggested at #hackAAS by Kathy Cooksey.

Built by Dan Foreman-Mackey and distributed under the BSD 2-clause license (see LICENSE).

This web scraping project makes use of the html2text module written by one of the greatest scrapers that that community has known: Aaron Swartz.

You can install using pip with:

pip install arxiv2speech

Usage: arxiv2speech [-h | --help]
       arxiv2speech [-u URL] [-o OUTPUT] [--clobber] [--quiet] [--limit N]

-h --help  show this
-u URL     custom arXiv RSS [default: http://export.arxiv.org/rss/astro-ph]
-o OUTPUT  base directory for output [default: ./build]
--clobber  overwrite an existing archive
--quiet    don't print any status messages
--limit N  limit the number of abstracts analysed