🔬 renderarxiv

Search arXiv from your terminal and get beautiful HTML results you can read or copy-paste into ChatGPT/Claude.

No more hallucinated papers — everything is real, straight from arXiv.

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📥 Install

pip install git+https://github.com/peterdunson/renderarxiv.git

That's it!

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🚀 Use

renderarxiv "transformer attention mechanism"

Opens a beautiful HTML page in your browser with:

• 👤 Human view — clean paper cards with abstracts, authors, PDF links
• 🤖 LLM view — formatted text ready to copy into AI assistants

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⚙️ Options

Get more/fewer results:

renderarxiv "quantum computing" --max-results 15

Ranking modes:

renderarxiv "deep learning" --mode recent      # Newest papers
renderarxiv "neural networks" --mode relevant  # Best text match
renderarxiv "language models" --mode semantic  # Smart semantic matching

Default is balanced (mix of relevance + recency).

Filter by category:

renderarxiv "object detection" --category cs.CV  # Computer Vision only
renderarxiv "optimization" --category math.OC    # Math only

Common categories: cs.LG (ML), cs.AI (AI), cs.CL (NLP), cs.CV (Vision), cs.RO (Robotics)

Save to file:

renderarxiv "diffusion models" -o papers.html --no-open

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💡 Examples

# Latest ML research
renderarxiv "large language models" --category cs.LG --mode recent

# Find a specific paper
renderarxiv "attention is all you need" --mode relevant

# Explore robotics
renderarxiv "robot manipulation" --category cs.RO --max-results 20

# Deep semantic search
renderarxiv "few-shot learning" --mode semantic

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🎯 Pro Tip

1. Search for papers: renderarxiv "your topic" --max-results 10
2. Click the 🤖 LLM button in your browser
3. Copy the text (Ctrl+A, Ctrl+C)
4. Paste into ChatGPT/Claude: "Summarize these papers and identify key trends"

Now your AI has real citations, not hallucinations!

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📚 Full Category List

Computer Science:

• cs.AI — Artificial Intelligence
• cs.CL — Natural Language Processing
• cs.CV — Computer Vision
• cs.LG — Machine Learning
• cs.RO — Robotics
• cs.CR — Security
• cs.SE — Software Engineering

Math/Stats:

• math.OC — Optimization
• stat.ML — Statistics/ML

Physics:

• quant-ph — Quantum Physics

Full list: https://arxiv.org/category_taxonomy

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🤔 Why use this?

• ✅ No hallucinated papers
• ✅ Direct PDF download links
• ✅ Beautiful, readable output
• ✅ LLM-ready formatted text
• ✅ Fast (uses official arXiv API)
• ✅ Filter by research area
• ✅ Multiple ranking modes

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🛠️ Development

git clone https://github.com/peterdunson/renderarxiv.git
cd renderarxiv
pip install -e .

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📄 License

MIT © 2025

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🙏 Inspired by

• rendergit by Andrej Karpathy
• renderscholar
• renderstack