opencite 0.1.1

Academic literature search, citation management, and PDF retrieval CLI

OpenCite

Academic literature search, citation management, and PDF retrieval CLI.

Searches Semantic Scholar, OpenAlex, and PubMed in parallel, deduplicates results, and supports BibTeX output, citation graph traversal, PDF retrieval, and PDF-to-markdown conversion.

Installation

pip install opencite

With PDF conversion support:

pip install opencite[convert]

For development:

git clone https://github.com/neuromechanist/opencite.git
cd opencite
uv sync --extra dev

Claude Code Plugin

OpenCite is available as a Claude Code plugin, giving Claude direct access to academic literature search and citation management.

To install:

1. Open Claude Code
2. Type /plugin and press Enter
3. Select "Add marketplace"
4. Enter neuromechanist/opencite
5. Restart Claude Code

Once installed, use /opencite or ask Claude to search for papers, look up DOIs, get BibTeX, etc.

Quick Start

# Search for papers
opencite search "transformer attention mechanism"

# Look up a paper by DOI
opencite lookup 10.1038/nature12345

# Find most-cited papers in a field
opencite canonical "deep learning for neuroscience" --min-citations 500

# Get papers citing a specific work
opencite cite 10.1038/nature12345

# Download a PDF
opencite pdf 10.1038/nature12345 -o papers/

Configuration

Set API keys in a .env file or as environment variables:

SEMANTIC_SCHOLAR_API_KEY=your_key
PUBMED_API_KEY=your_key
OPENALEX_API_KEY=your_key
MISTRAL_API_KEY=your_key          # for PDF-to-markdown via Mistral OCR