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paper-search-mcp

paper-search-mcp est un projet de agents IA open source, créé par openags (openags/paper-search-mcp sur GitHub). Il compte 2 766 étoiles sur GitHub et 288 forks, il est publié sous la licence MIT et a été mis à jour pour la dernière fois sur GitHub le 2 octobre 2026.

MCP server, CLI and skills for searching and downloading academic papers from arXiv, PubMed and 20+ sources

★ 2,8 k étoiles⑂ 288 forksMITmis à jour oct. 2026
▦ visuel — le README de ce projet ne contient aucune capture intégrable,
voici donc un emplacement réservé. Le guide ci-dessous est complet malgré tout.
// détails du projet

Détails du projet

Étoiles GitHub
2 766
Forks
288
Licence
MIT
Dernière mise à jour sur GitHub
2 octobre 2026
Catégorie
Agents IA
Type de fiche
Guide d'installation complet
// fonctionnement

Comment ça marche

  1. Clarify your goal

    Decide which sources matter for your field (e.g. arXiv for CS, PubMed/Europe PMC for biomedicine) and whether you need search only or PDF download and text extraction too.

  2. Get the server

    Install via uvx/pip/Smithery or clone and run from source.

  3. Install and configure

    Add it to your MCP client; optionally set free API keys (Semantic Scholar, CORE, OpenAlex) and the required Unpaywall email in ~/.config/paper-search-mcp/.env.

  4. Run your first search

    Ask your client to search_papers for a topic, review the deduplicated results, and download an open-access PDF with the fallback downloader.

// fonctionnalités

Pourquoi on l'adore

20+ academic sources

Unified search across arXiv, PubMed, bioRxiv, medRxiv, Semantic Scholar, Crossref, OpenAlex, PMC, CORE, Europe PMC, dblp, OpenAIRE, DOAJ, Zenodo, HAL, SSRN, OpenReview, IACR and more.

Unified search with dedup

The high-level search_papers tool runs multi-source concurrent search and deduplicates into a standardized Paper format.

OA-first downloads

download_with_fallback tries source-native links, then OpenAIRE/CORE/Europe PMC/PMC discovery, then Unpaywall DOI resolution (an optional Sci-Hub step is user-enabled and the user's responsibility).

Free-first, keys optional

Works without keys wherever possible; free keys for some sources raise rate limits, and the README documents each source's real capability matrix from live tests.

Fast search modes

CLI -s fast / -s fastest modes trade coverage for latency using the quickest sources.

Multiple transports and OAuth

stdio by default, plus SSE and Streamable HTTP bound to localhost, with optional OAuth protected-resource mode for remote deployments.

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// lancez-le

Lancez-le vous-même

  1. Clone the repo

    Clone Paper Search MCP if running from source; most users install it as an MCP server in step 2.

    git clone https://github.com/openags/paper-search-mcp.git
    cd paper-search-mcp
  2. Install the package

    Install it with the method the README lists for your client (uvx, pip, Smithery, npx or Docker).

    # see README for the exact command — install methods include uvx / pip / Smithery
  3. Add it to your MCP client

    Configure your client to launch the server (stdio by default), restart the client, and ask it to search for papers.

    # see README for the exact command — client config examples are in the Installation section
// cas d'usage

Ce que vous pouvez créer

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// faq

Questions fréquentes

Who maintains Paper Search MCP?

openags maintains it on GitHub.

Is it free?

Yes, MIT-licensed, and deliberately free-first: sources are public/open by default. Some optional free API keys improve rate limits.

Does it need a paid API key?

No paid key is required. Unpaywall needs just an email set in the env; a few sources (like IEEE) need their own key only if you enable them.

How does it compare to searching Google Scholar alone?

Scholar is one source with bot-detection limits (documented in the README). This server standardizes and deduplicates results across 20+ sources and can download open-access full text.

How do I get started?

Install via uvx or Smithery, add it to your MCP client config, restart the client, and ask for a search_papers query.

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