ResearchPulse

Your daily pulse on research. A free, open-source agent that fetches new papers in your fields and opens them in your browser.

Install

pip install research-pulse

Or with pipx (Mac/Linux):

pipx install research-pulse

Desktop App

Launch the GUI application:

# Install with desktop support
pip install research-pulse[desktop]

# Launch the app
research-pulse desktop

Features:

• Dark mode interface
• Browse papers with ranking and venue info
• Search papers across multiple sources
• Manage topics with checkboxes
• Rate papers and track reading history
• Open papers in browser with one click

CLI Usage

research-pulse                          # Today's papers
research-pulse search "query"           # Search papers
research-pulse search "attention" --venue neurips,icml --core A --year 2024
research-pulse conferences              # List CORE-ranked venues
research-pulse conferences --core "A*"  # Top-tier only
research-pulse topics                   # View/change topics
research-pulse topics ai-ml nlp cv      # Set topics directly
research-pulse add-topic --id my-field --label "My Field" --keywords "kw1,kw2"
research-pulse chat                     # Interactive agent
research-pulse help                     # All commands

What it does

• Fetches papers from arXiv, OpenAlex, Europe PMC, bioRxiv, Crossref, Semantic Scholar
• Auto-detects topics from your Zotero library (if installed)
• Opens a clean HTML digest in your browser
• Tracks your reading history and ratings
• 31 built-in research domains (AI, NLP, medicine, physics, etc.)
• Follow any field: research-pulse follow "quantum computing"
• Conference metadata: venue name, year, and CORE rank (A*, A, B, C) on each paper
• Filter by conference: --venue neurips, --core A, --year 2024 on search

Conference filtering

Each paper shows venue, year, and CORE rank when available (from OpenAlex, Crossref, or arXiv comments).

research-pulse conferences                    # all ranked venues in catalog
research-pulse search "diffusion models" --venue neurips,icml
research-pulse search "LLM reasoning" --core A --year 2024

CORE ranks come from a bundled offline catalog (config/core_venues.yaml). Edit or extend it for your field — no CORE API key needed.

Zotero Integration

If you have Zotero installed, topics are auto-detected from your library on first run only. Manual topic choices are kept after that.

research-pulse zotero              # See detected topics
research-pulse zotero --apply      # Re-sync digest topics from Zotero

Topics

Set topics with IDs (the short names in parentheses), not display labels:

research-pulse topics              # Interactive picker
research-pulse topics ai-ml nlp cv # Set directly
research-pulse topics show         # See current topics + config file path

Run research-pulse topics with no args to see the full list and current selection.

One config file — avoid mixing installs

Topic choices are stored in data/local.json. Where that file lives depends on how you run ResearchPulse:

If you set topics one way but run the digest another, you'll see the wrong topics (often defaults ai-ml, nlp).

Fix: use the same entry point for both, or reinstall from your clone:

pip install -e "D:\Research Agent"   # editable install — one path for everything
research-pulse topics show           # confirm config file path

Set RESEARCHPULSE_HOME to force a single config directory anywhere.

Interactive Agent

research-pulse chat

Inside the agent:

• search <query> — search papers
• summarize <n> — summarize paper
• compare <n1> <n2> — compare papers
• rate <n> <1-5> — rate a paper
• ask <question> — ask AI about papers
• insights — get research insights
• memory — view reading history

Add Custom Topics

research-pulse add-topic --id data-science --label "Data Science" --keywords "data,analytics,visualization" --arxiv "stat.ML,cs.DB"

License

MIT — see LICENSE.