🤖 Weekly AI Digest v3 — Automated Content Curation Script

Python script that auto-curates arXiv papers, GitHub trending repos, and AI news RSS feeds into a ready-to-publish digest.

📋 What It Does

The weekly_digest_v3_curator.py script automatically gathers content from multiple sources and produces a formatted HTML digest ready to publish to WordPress via the dg/v1/publish endpoint.

Data Sources

• 📄 arXiv API — Fetches top papers from cs.AI, cs.CL, cs.LG, cs.RO, cs.NE categories, sorted by submission date. Selects Paper of the Week + 3 runners-up.
• ⭐ GitHub Search API — Finds trending AI/ML repos created in the past week with 50+ stars. Filters by topics: machine-learning, artificial-intelligence, deep-learning, llm, transformers.
• 📰 RSS Feeds — Aggregates from 6 sources: arXiv CL Blog, arXiv AI Blog, Hugging Face Blog, OpenAI Blog, Google AI Blog, MIT Technology Review. Deduplicates by title hash.

🏗️ Architecture

🚀 Usage

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📊 Output Format

The script outputs a JSON file with the following structure:

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✅ Live Test Results

Script tested successfully on May 27, 2026:

• ✅ arXiv: 4 papers fetched from cs.AI, cs.CL, cs.LG categories
• ✅ RSS News: 6 items aggregated from 6 feeds, deduplicated
• ⚠ GitHub: Rate-limited on free API (422). Falls back gracefully with empty repos list.
• ✅ HTML Generation: Full digest HTML produced with all sections

🔧 Integration with Digest Publishing

To publish a digest edition, the WordPress dg/v1/publish endpoint reads the html field from the JSON output and creates a new post:

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📌 Notes

• Requires only Python 3 stdlib — no pip install needed
• arXiv API has rate limits; script fetches max 8 papers to stay within bounds
• GitHub Search API may rate-limit unauthenticated requests (60/hour)
• RSS feeds that fail to load are skipped gracefully
• Output HTML is self-contained with inline styles — works in WordPress without external CSS