2025-09-22: Added saves of retrieved ids

db/saved.txt

@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+2509.15307v1
+2509.15337v1
+2509.15720v1
+2509.16168v1

src/arxtic.py

@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ def get_entries(rss):
     entries = rss["entries"]
     return entries
 
-def print_entries(entries, fields=None):
+def print_entries(entries, fields=None, keywords=None):
     for i in range(len(entries)):
         entry = entries[i]
 
@@ -81,6 +81,11 @@ def print_entries(entries, fields=None):
                   + "Filtered field(s): " 
                   + ", ".join(fields[i]) 
                   + COLOUR_DEFAULT)
+        if keywords is not None:
+            print(COLOUR_ERROR 
+                  + "Filtered keyword(s): " 
+                  + ", ".join(keywords[i]) 
+                  + COLOUR_DEFAULT)
         print("")
     return 0
 
@@ -89,24 +94,24 @@ def get_filters():
     filters_list = [f for f in os.listdir(FILTERS_DIR) if not f[0] == "."]
     for i in range(len(filters_list)):
         path = FILTERS_DIR + filters_list[i]
-        filter_file = open(path)
+        with open(path) as filter_file:
-        dic = {"fields": [], "values": []}
+            dic = {"fields": [], "values": []}
-        for line in filter_file.readlines():
+            for line in filter_file.readlines():
-            if "#FIELD" in line:
+                if "#FIELD" in line:
-                field = line.split("=")[1].replace("\"", "").strip()
+                    field = line.split("=")[1].replace("\"", "").strip()
-                dic["fields"].append(field)
+                    dic["fields"].append(field)
-            elif line[0] == "#" or line in [" \n", "\n", ""]:
+                elif line[0] == "#" or line in [" \n", "\n", ""]:
-                continue
+                    continue
-            else:
+                else:
-                value = line.replace("\n", "")
+                    value = line.replace("\n", "")
-                dic["values"].append(value)
+                    dic["values"].append(value)
-        filters.append(dic)
+            filters.append(dic)
-        filter_file.close()
     return filters
 
 def filter_entries(filters, entries):
     filtered_entries = []
     filtered_fields = []
+    filtered_keywords = []
     for entry in entries:
         added = False
         for filter_ in filters:
@@ -114,21 +119,52 @@ def filter_entries(filters, entries):
             values = filter_["values"]
             for field in fields:
                 for value in values:
-                    if not added and value in entry[field]:
+                    if not added and value.upper() in str(entry[field]).upper():
                         filtered_entries.append(entry)
                         filtered_fields.append([field])
+                        filtered_keywords.append([value])
                         added = True
-                    elif added and value in entry[field]:
+                    elif added and value.upper() in str(entry[field]).upper():
                         if not field in filtered_fields[-1]:
                             filtered_fields[-1].append(field)
-    return filtered_entries, filtered_fields
+                        if not value in filtered_keywords[-1]:
+                            filtered_keywords[-1].append(value)
+    return filtered_entries, filtered_fields, filtered_keywords
+
+def get_ids(entries):
+    ids = []
+    for entry in entries:
+        ids.append(entry["id"])
+    return ids
+
+def save_ids(ids, library="saved"):
+    if isinstance(ids, list) or isinstance(ids, np.ndarray):
+        ids = [i.replace("oai:", "").replace("arXiv.org:", "") for i in ids]
+    elif isinstance(ids, str):
+        ids = [ids.replace("oai:", "").replace("arXiv.org:", "")]
+    else:
+        raise Exception("The type of ids ({}) is not recognized".format(type(ids)))
+    with open(DB_DIR + library + ".txt", "a+") as db_file:
+        None # creates the file if not already in the directory
+    with open(DB_DIR + library + ".txt", "r+") as db_file:
+        known_ids = [line.replace("\n", "") for line in db_file.readlines()]
+
+    print(known_ids)
+    with open(DB_DIR + library + ".txt", "a+") as db_file:
+        for i in ids:
+            if not i in known_ids:
+                db_file.write(i)
+                db_file.write("\n")
+    return 0
 
 def today_arxiv():
     filters = get_filters()
     feed = get_rss()
     entries = get_entries(feed)
-    entries, fields = filter_entries(filters, entries)
+    entries, fields, keywords = filter_entries(filters, entries)
-    print_entries(entries, fields)
+    ids = get_ids(entries)
+    save_ids(ids)
+    print_entries(entries, fields, keywords)
     return entries, fields
 
 def get_api_ids(ids):
@@ -142,11 +178,13 @@ def get_api_ids(ids):
     feed = fp.parse(query)
     return feed
 
+
+
+    
 """
 ids = ["oai:arXiv.org:2509.13163"]
 feed = get_api_ids(ids)
 entries = get_entries(feed)
 print_entries(entries)
 """
-
 today_arxiv()