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I'm tempted to go and build an bot but one that also shares the first figure in the toot automatically.. someone build that yet?

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@guenp arXiv itself does not contain Figures & Tables data, so generally you will need to process the PDF file from export.arxiv.org/pdf/*
Defining which visible part of the document is a figure might be again non-trivial.

@j824h indeed, I was not planning to parse the PDF, that seems like a tedious route

@guenp Copyright also concerns.
Unlike the abstract, the article content is not in public domain by default.
I think we can only repost the articles explicitly licensed for re-use.
arxiv.org/help/bulk_data#bulk-

@j824h huh good to know.. how does arxiv-vanity deal with this limitation?

@guenp No clue! Maybe @bfirsh would assert fair use? You reminded me that arXiv seems to overlook certain gray area so maybe we don't have to be excessively cautious.

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