So for those of you who’ve downloaded all of quant-ph or all of hep-th or all of gr-qc or maybe all three of them, you might be looking for a nice simple way to search the title and authors and abstract of these files with a nice simple application. Because using someone else’s software to do this would be too easy, and I needed an excuse to learn Python, I cobbled together a program to do exactly this, which I call MyArXiv. The program is bare bones. If you’re a windows user, simply install the .exe below and run the program. Then set the base directory to a directory which contains the quant-ph or hep-th or gr-qc folder which you uncommpressed from the arxiv on your hard drive torrent. Then reload the database (this will take a few moments.) You only need to reload the database whenever your local version of the arxiv changes. Searching should result in the appropriate links and double clicking on these should launch the pdf.
Here is the windows setup file: setup.exe.
Here is the python source as a text file: myarxiv.txt
I haven’t tried the program yet on any platfor besides windows, but getting it to run elsewhere should be fairly simple (it requires wxpython as well as buzhug) Comments welcome.
Screenshot (click for full size):
O brave new quantum world!
Another typo alert: the link to the Windows exe should be to here. The program worked perfectly for me. Thanks!
Typo alert: Linked URL for wxpython left out the ‘g’ in “.org”.
Doh, and doh. Thanks. Fixed.
Argh! I don’t have enough memory!