Show HN: ArXiv-txt, LLM-friendly ArXiv papers

[jerpint]

https://www.arxiv-txt.org/

Just change arxiv.org to arxiv-txt.org in the URL to get the paper info in markdown

Example:

Original URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1706.03762

Change to: https://arxiv-txt.org/abs/1706.03762

To fetch the raw text directly, use https://arxiv-txt.org/raw/abs/1706.03762, this will be particularly useful for APIs and agents

[westurner]

If you train an LLM on only formally verified code, it should not be expected to generate formally verified code.

Similarly, if you train an LLM on only published ScholarlyArticles ['s abstracts], it should not be expected to generate publishable or true text.

Traceability for Retraction would be necessary to prevent lossy feedback.

[owalerys]

Really clean API design, I'm a fan!

[lgas]

It just extracts the abstracts?

[jerpint → lgas]

For now , yes - abstracts and other metadata

[rrekaf → jerpint]

do you plan on adding descriptions of figures and tables?

[jerpint → rrekaf]

will probably focus on getting the text out of the papers first, figures might be a good next step after that

[sbpost]

The example you give doesn't seem to work - the raw txt does not have authors.

[jerpint → sbpost]

you're right - I hadn't noticed! I fixed it now, thanks for pointing it out

[jmartin2683]

This would be awesome wrapped in an MCP server/tool call :)

[jerpint → jmartin2683]

whoa - i haven't yet played with MCP - might be a good first project!

[cchance]

Was super excited that it was going to be the actual papers, kinda cool but just being abstracts doesn't go very far, good luck getting the papers working thats gonna be pretty cool once working, then to feed it all into a vector db XD