Claude-skill-registry hf-papers-reporter

Generate Word reports from Hugging Face Daily Papers. Downloads top papers, extracts abstracts and introductions from PDFs, extracts figures, and compiles everything into a formatted Word document with cover images. Use when user asks for 'HF daily papers', 'Hugging Face papers report', 'download papers and make a summary', or any request to fetch, analyze, and document papers from huggingface.co/papers.

install

source · Clone the upstream repo

git clone https://github.com/majiayu000/claude-skill-registry

Claude Code · Install into ~/.claude/skills/

T=$(mktemp -d) && git clone --depth=1 https://github.com/majiayu000/claude-skill-registry "$T" && mkdir -p ~/.claude/skills && cp -r "$T/skills/data/hf-papers-reporter" ~/.claude/skills/majiayu000-claude-skill-registry-hf-papers-reporter && rm -rf "$T"

manifest: skills/data/hf-papers-reporter/SKILL.md

Hugging Face Daily Papers Reporter

Generate professional Word reports from Hugging Face Daily Papers with full text extraction and image capture.

What This Skill Does

Scrapes huggingface.co/papers for the top papers
Downloads PDFs from arXiv
Extracts Abstract and Introduction sections
Extracts figures/images from PDFs
Generates a formatted Word document (.docx) with:
- Paper titles and arXiv links
- Cover images from HF
- Full abstracts
- Introduction sections
- Extracted figures from papers

Quick Start

Run the main script to generate today's report:

cd /path/to/hf-papers-reporter
python3 scripts/process_papers.py

Output will be saved to

output/HF_Daily_Papers_Report.docx

Dependencies

Install required packages:

pip3 install PyMuPDF python-docx Pillow beautifulsoup4 requests

How It Works

Step 1: Fetch Paper List

Scrapes huggingface.co/papers
Extracts arXiv IDs, titles, and cover image URLs

Step 2: Download & Process (per paper)

Download PDF from arxiv.org/pdf/{id}.pdf
    ↓
Extract text (first 5 pages)
    - Abstract (regex match)
    - Introduction (regex match)
    ↓
Extract images (first 5 pages, max 3 per page)
    - Compress to 600x400
    ↓
Download cover image from HF CDN
    - Compress to 800x600

Step 3: Generate Word Document

Title page with report name and date
Each paper as a section with:
- Cover image (centered)
- Abstract section
- Introduction section
- Extracted figures (up to 4)

Output Structure

hf_papers/
├── pdfs/           # Downloaded PDFs
├── images/         # Cover images + extracted figures
└── output/
    ├── HF_Daily_Papers_Report.docx
    └── papers_data.json

Known Issues & Solutions

Issue	Cause	Fix
XML encoding error	PDF text contains control characters	Script auto-cleans 0x00-0x1F chars
No abstract found	PDF structure varies	Multiple regex patterns tried
Large PDFs	Some papers are 20MB+	Only first 5 pages processed

Customization

To modify the number of papers (default: 10), edit the

PAPERS

list in

scripts/process_papers.py

To change image sizes, modify the

thumbnail()

calls in the script.