Automatically update the time of conferences through crawlers

[firmianay]

Some conferences seem to have not been updated for a long time because no one cares about them. Do you consider adding crawlers and regularization to automate this process?

[jacklightChen]

Thank you for kindly suggesting this. We have indeed considered adding crawlers several months ago. However, due to the web format of each conference differs every year, developing the crawlers can be time-consuming for maintainers. We appreciate your feedback and welcome any form of contributions.

[joachimneu]

Hey, I am maintaining another fork of ai-deadlines, and hacked a little Python script that uses LLMs through the OpenAI API to "crawl" conference websites and keep the YAML files up-to-date semi-automatically. https://github.com/blockchain-deadlines/blockchain-deadlines.github.io/blob/main/chatgpt-updater.py I do double-check its output before committing, but it works pretty reliably despite the calls-for-papers varying widely across venues and time. Maybe it's of use for you!