📚 papercli — Scientific papers from your terminal

CLI for searching academic papers across arXiv, Semantic Scholar, and Google Scholar (via SerpApi).

Get the repository

Option 1: Clone with git

git clone https://github.com/<your-user>/papercli.git
cd papercli
make build
cp ./bin/papercli ./papercli
./papercli --version

Example usage

# Initialize config
./papercli config init

# Search papers
./papercli search "graph neural networks" --provider arxiv --limit 5

# Save results to Markdown
./papercli search "retrieval augmented generation" \
  --provider semantic \
  --year-from 2023 \
  --sort date \
  --limit 10 \
  --format md \
  --out rag-papers.md

More examples

# Find papers by author
./papercli author "Yoshua Bengio" \
  --provider semantic \
  --sort citations \
  --limit 10

# Download a paper PDF by ID
./papercli download "1706.03762" \
  --provider arxiv \
  --out attention-is-all-you-need.pdf

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details.