crawly: the literature assistant (v2.1.0)

🕷️ crawly: the literature assistant — Release v2.1.0

crawly (crawly: the literature assistant) is an end-to-end academic research assistant for discovering scientific papers across 8+ official Open Access databases (OpenAlex, Unpaywall, Semantic Scholar, arXiv, Europe PMC, Crossref, DOAJ, HAL, OpenAIRE), downloading full-text PDFs within a strict Legal Open-Access framework by default, exporting BibTeX citations, and generating AI-powered literature reviews using local self-hosted LLMs (Ollama, LM Studio, vLLM) or cloud APIs (OpenAI, Gemini, Anthropic, OpenRouter, Groq, DeepSeek).

📦 Zero-Setup Download Options (No pip install Required)

• crawly-universal-windows-linux.zip: Universal cross-platform bundle containing crawly (Linux/WSL/macOS launcher), crawly.bat (Windows launcher), crawly.pyz (self-contained archive with pypdf, rich, requests, beautifulsoup4), and annotated config.json.
• crawly-linux-x86_64: Native standalone Linux / WSL executable binary.
• crawly-windows-x86_64.exe: Native standalone Windows executable binary.
• config.json: External configuration file with default values and documentation for all AI providers and academic endpoints.

🛡️ Quality & Compliance

• 100% Automated Test & Code Coverage Verified (1883 / 1883 statements).
• Strict Legal Open-Access Default with mandatory user risk-acceptance prompts before any optional third-party fallback.

Full Changelog: v2.0.0...v2.1.0