What does this script do?

This script reads a list of DOIs from list.csv, fetches metadata from CrossRef API, and checks if those papers exist in Poseidon Archives (community-archive, aadr-archive, minotaur-archive). It then generates an HTML table (index.html).

Every time list.csv is updated and a commit is pushed, this script runs and updates index.html on GitHub Pages.

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Technical Requirements

• Python Version: Python 3.x
• Required Libraries:

  pip install requests Jinja2

• Files:
  • list.txt → List of DOIs (one per line)
  • base_script.py → The main script
  • index.html → The generated output file

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Testing locally

To run the script locally, you can try python3 base_script.py. Likely you will be required to first install libraries requests and jinja2. You can do that by creating a virtual environment, for example:

python3 -m venv ~/venv/paper-directory
source ~/venvs/paper-directory/bin/activate
python3 -m pip install requests
python3 -m pip install jinja2

Then python3 base_script.py should generate the page.

You can then run a test server:

python3 -m http.server --directory docs 8000

and open http://localhost:8000 in your browser.