| name | papers-collect-from-web |
| status | active-local-collect |
| description | Collects paper candidates from non-GitHub web URLs — conference sites, lab homepages, proceedings pages, Google Scholar results, blog posts with paper lists, etc. Fetches and stores pages locally, then appends rows to `obsidian-vault/paper_list.csv`. Use when the user provides web URLs (not GitHub repos) + keyword constraints + venue/year and wants candidates added to the unified log. For GitHub repos, use `papers-collect-from-github-repo` instead. |
Paper Collector (Online / Web)
Fetch web pages to local storage, extract paper candidates, and append them to obsidian-vault/paper_list.csv.
Use this skill for non-GitHub web sources: conference sites, lab homepages, proceedings pages (ACL Anthology, IEEE Xplore, etc.), Google Scholar results, blog posts with paper lists, etc.
For GitHub repositories (awesome lists, survey repos, lab paper repos, conference paper repos), use papers-collect-from-github-repo instead — it handles raw Markdown and multi-file repo structures better.
Scope
- Input: one or more web URLs + include/exclude keyword constraints + target venue/year label.
- Output:
- saved source pages under
paperSources/<run_id>/...
- new rows appended to
obsidian-vault/paper_list.csv
Output format (CSV columns, same as paper_list.csv)
state,importance,paper_title,venue,project_link_or_github_link,paper_link,sort,pdf_path
Defaults:
- state:
Wait (newly collected) or Skip (manually marked skip)
- importance: empty (user fills later)
- venue: user-provided label such as
ICLR 2026
- sort: leave blank if unknown; user can fill per item later
- pdf_path: empty (filled later by
papers-download-from-list)
State convention is defined in STATE_CONVENTION.md: main pipeline Wait → Downloaded → analysised → checked; out-of-band states Skip / Missing.
Workflow
- Ask user for:
- URLs (one or many)
- include keywords (optional) and exclude keywords (optional)
- venue/time label (for example
ICLR 2026)
- whether to overwrite or append if rows already exist for this venue
- Run collector script (preferred default):
python3 ".claude/skills/papers-collect-from-web/scripts/paper_collector_online/collect_from_urls.py" --venue-time "ICLR 2026" --urls "<URL1>" "<URL2>" --include "motion;diffusion" --exclude "workshop;dataset" --append
- Verify generated rows:
- columns present and in correct order
- dedup applied by normalized paper link against existing
paper_list.csv
- links are well-formed (no surrounding punctuation)
- If extraction quality is poor for a URL:
- rerun with tighter keywords, or
- run per-source URLs separately, or
- manually provide a short snippet list and extend script patterns only if needed.
Rules and heuristics (defaults)
- Fetch: store HTML as-is (no JS rendering).
- Dedup: by normalized
paper link (for example normalize arXiv pdf/abs).
- Project link: best-effort heuristic; may be empty.
- Keywords: match against title + nearby anchor text (case-insensitive).
- Safety: respect reasonable timeouts; do not brute-force crawl.
Notes
- This skill intentionally does not download PDFs. It only appends candidate rows to
paper_list.csv for later processing.
- Output format is unified with
papers-collect-from-github-repo — both write to paper_list.csv.
- Repository root is the folder containing
obsidian-vault/analysis/ and obsidian-vault/paperPDFs/.
Relationship to papers-collect-from-github-repo
- This skill (
papers-collect-from-web): optimized for arbitrary web pages — fetches rendered HTML, uses link-based extraction, stores source HTML locally
papers-collect-from-github-repo: optimized for GitHub repos — fetches raw Markdown, understands repo structure, handles multi-file layouts, writes one-off parsers
