Professor's open-source paperpush auto-fills journal submission forms via browser automation
lpachter · x · 2026-10-08
Prof. Lior Pachter shares that a student-built open-source tool, paperpush, automates filling out journal/conference/preprint submission forms—killing his interest in manual submissions. Cites Ryan Baym's sudoku-solver anecdote as the same phenomenon. The tool (182 stars, BSD-2) takes a manuscript directory plus target venue and drives submission portals via Playwright/Chromium; install with pip install paperpush and playwright install chromium.
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