paper-search

name paper-search description Search, download, and read academic papers from 20+ sources (arXiv, PubMed, Semantic Scholar, CrossRef, etc). Use when the user asks to find papers, search for research, look up academic literature, download a paper PDF, or extract text from a paper. Paper Search Search, download, and read academic papers via the paper-search CLI. CLI Usage All commands run via: paper-search < command > [args] If paper-search is not available, install it with uv tool install paper-search-mcp . Optional API keys can be configured in ~/.config/paper-search-mcp/.env . Search paper-search search "<query>" -n <max_per_source> -s <sources> -y <year> -n : results per source (default: 5) -s : comma-separated sources or "all" (default: all) -y : year filter for Semantic Scholar (e.g. "2020", "2018-2022") For speed, prefer targeted sources ( -s arxiv,semantic,crossref ) over "all" unless broad coverage is needed. Download PDF paper-search download < source > <paper_id> [-o ./downloads] Read (extract text) paper-search read < source > <paper_id> [-o ./downloads] List sources paper-search sources Output search and download return JSON. read returns plain text. Config warnings go to stderr and can be ignored. Sources arxiv, pubmed, biorxiv, medrxiv, google_scholar, iacr, semantic, crossref, openalex, pmc, core, europepmc, dblp, openaire, citeseerx, doaj, base, zenodo, hal, ssrn, unpaywall Optional (env vars): ieee ( IEEE_API_KEY ), acm ( ACM_API_KEY ) Workflow Search with targeted sources to find papers Present results as a table: title, authors, year, source, DOI/URL If the user wants full text, use read <source> <paper_id> If the user wants the PDF, use download <source> <paper_id> and report the saved path