RESEARCH TOOL · AI PIPELINE · 2026

Gyn Research Dashboard

A daily literature radar, built for one medical researcher.

TYPE
AI research pipeline
YEAR
2026
STACK
Python (stdlib only) · Claude
STATUS
In daily use · single user
Gynaecology Research Dashboard — retrieval and grading pipeline
WHAT IT DOES

It reads the field every morning.

Keeping up with gynaecology research means scanning dozens of journals and society feeds daily. This pipeline does the scanning, grading and summarising — the researcher opens one dashboard and reads only what earned that attention.

01

Dual-route PubMed retrieval

A 51-journal whitelist route keeps the signal high — and a second route keyed on publication type catches guidelines and consensus statements wherever they're published, with a four-times-wider date window.

02

26 sources beyond PubMed

18 RSS feeds, 6 society sitemaps (FIGO, ACOG, ASRM, NICE, ESGO, ESMO) and 2 scraped guideline pages. The same story from eight outlets is clustered semantically — by text similarity, not URL — keeping only the best-ranked version.

03

Claude reads every paper

Each paper gets an A/B/C grade (or is filtered out) and a structured Chinese reading card — core question, design, results, limitations, next steps and more. When the item is a guideline, the card switches to version-diff analysis: what actually changed.

04

One dashboard, every morning

Four tabs — latest papers, academic news, weekly picks, favourites — with folder-and-tag organisation synced server-side, and a rotating top banner when something major lands. A scheduled job refreshes everything each morning at 8.

THE ARCHITECTURE

A pipeline with zero dependencies.

Two Python scripts, standard library only — no frameworks, no packages to rot. They fetch, Claude grades, flat JSON stores, a tiny server serves one HTML file. Tap a node to see why each piece is the way it is.

PubMed × 2 WHITELIST + GUIDELINE 26 sources RSS · SITEMAP · HTML 2 scripts PYTHON · STDLIB ONLY papers · news Claude GRADE · CARD · CLASSIFY flat JSON DATA · NEWS · CACHES dashboard 1 HTML · 4 TABS · :8765
TIP

Tap a node

Click on any block in the diagram to see what it does and why I picked it.

DECISIONS

Three calls that shaped it.

01

A whitelist, plus a deliberate hole in it

A journal whitelist maximises precision but structurally misses the one category that matters most: guidelines get published anywhere. The fix is a second query keyed on publication type that bypasses the whitelist, gets a wider window, and a synthetic tier so impact-factor sorting can't bury it.

02

Favourites moved off a third party

Cross-device favourites first synced through GitHub Gist — which meant pasting a token on every device and parking a research library with a third party. I replaced it with a server-side store: one endpoint, atomic writes, 30 days of dated snapshots. Cost: offline now degrades to local-only.

03

Every AI dollar is cached and capped

Each paper and news item is cached by its ID, written incrementally under a lock — a crash mid-run never loses paid analysis. A hard cap trims the list after tier-and-impact sorting, so the most valuable items are analysed first. The trade: changing a prompt means manually clearing caches.

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