sioyek VS sioyek-python-extensions

Sioyek is a PDF viewer designed exactly for reading research papers and textbooks: https://github.com/ahrm/sioyek.

Sioyek: a PDF viewer optimized for reading research papers and textbooks. https://github.com/ahrm/sioyek

It has a lot of niche features, but my favorite is the ability to preview or jump to references even when they are not linked in the PDF file.

I implore all developers of PDF readers to implement sioyek's overview feature[0]. When you hover on a cross-referenced entry, it opens a little preview window with the contents of the reference. It is an absolute game-changer for reading textbooks and technical papers; I cannot overstate its utility.

[0] https://github.com/ahrm/sioyek#overview

Has anyone been able to run the sioyek PDF viewer (https://github.com/ahrm/sioyek) on Asahi? I've tinkered around a little, but the max I've gotten to is a black window with the executable complaining about an inability to compile certain shaders. Would this be due to the current OpenGL in mesa-asahi-edge (and thus can't be solved until we get more recent OpenGL version support) or is there some way to finagle around this?

Maybe chat to the dev of https://github.com/ahrm/sioyek about adding this as a feature. It's probably the closest pdf viewer I can think of that might do something like this in the future.

I am developing a PDF viewer designed for reading research papers[1]. One very useful feature that I would like to add is the ability to directly download and open a paper just by clicking on its name in the PDF file. I have implemented a version of this using PyPaperBot [2] which is not bad, but it is not as fast as I would like it to be (it uses scihub which doesn't have the best servers).

By parsing the html from google scholar, I wrote a python script that does this which was very fast and was working perfectly, however, after using it for a couple of minutes (maybe about 10-15 requests), I can no longer query google scholar using python requests (the returned html is a request for captcha). It appears that google disallows any programmatic use of google scholar (even though this was not spammy at all, the user has to manually click on a paper to send a request to google scholar).

Anyway I was wondering if there is any decent and free API to get the url of a paper given its name, I have found a couple of paid ones but they are way too expensive.

[1] https://sioyek.info

[2] https://github.com/ahrm/sioyek-python-extensions#-paper_downloader

Hi! Recently we released sioyek 1.5 with the major new addition of extensions which I am pretty excited about.

See this repository for a sample of what is possible: https://github.com/ahrm/sioyek-python-extensions . For example we have:

* paper_downloader: download papers from google scholar or libgen just by control+clicking on their name (video: https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/6392321/185757545-...)

See this repository for a sample of what is possible. For example we have: