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PaperSeek
Open-source literature search, citation exploration, and abstract-based reviews.
PaperSeek turns a research question into a reading list. It plans and refines queries, retrieves papers from your chosen source, expands citations where supported, and ranks relevance. Explore the results in a bilingual Web workspace, save local history, and export a reading list.
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Install
Requires Python 3.12 or newer. The release package includes the Web UI.
python -m pip install "paperseek==1.0.0b4"
paperseek serve
Open http://127.0.0.1:8765. Configure a model API and data source in the application.
Capabilities
- Eight scholarly sources: OpenAlex, arXiv, Crossref, Semantic Scholar, PubMed, Google Scholar via Serper, PaperHub, and Web of Science Starter.
- Query iteration, bounded candidate retrieval, optional citation expansion, and relevance ranking.
- OpenAI Responses, OpenAI-compatible Chat Completions, and Anthropic Messages model protocols.
- Local fusion, Embedding + Rerank, or System One preliminary ranking.
- Search history, filters, selection, citation maps, and complete CSV/JSON exports.
- Experimental abstract-based reviews with editable outlines, section writing, versions, and Markdown/Word/BibTeX exports.
A run begins with one selected data source. Search is bounded, not guaranteed exhaustive; reviews use available abstracts and metadata rather than automatically read full texts.
Terminal and integrations
The CLI provides serve, worker, search, doctor, migrate, and version. Configure process environment variables before a terminal search; a nearby .env is not loaded automatically.
paperseek search "How does open-source funding affect maintenance?" --source openalex --search-budget medium --output json
The local HTTP API is under /api/v1, with its schema at /openapi.json. MCP is packaged separately:
python -m pip install "paperseek-mcp==1.0.0b4"
paperseek-mcp --transport stdio
Data and upgrades
Community stores history in ~/.paperseek/paperseek.db by default, with artifacts and credential-encryption material in its data directory. Back up the complete directory consistently.
For Docker, separate workers, and 0.2 migration, see self-hosting and upgrading.
Development and license
The source distribution uses paperseek_core for research behavior, paperseek_app for use cases and ports, and paperseek_community for local adapters. Hosted consumes a fixed Community distribution. Common Vue sources are included for Hosted builds; installed Community serves the prebuilt assets.
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