respf 1.0.1

Download academic papers from ArXiv, Google Scholar, ACM, Springer, and GitHub

respf - Research Paper Fetcher

A Python package for downloading academic papers from ArXiv, Google Scholar, ACM, Springer, and GitHub.

Installation

pip install respf

Usage

CLI

# Download by title
respf "Attention Is All You Need"

# Download by ArXiv URL
respf https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.00020

# Specify sources
respf "BERT" --sources arxiv,google_scholar

# Download from citations file
respf --file citations.txt --dir ./papers

# Parse academic citation formats (APA, IEEE, Chicago, MLA, BibTeX)
respf --file citations.txt --parse --dir ./papers

# Get paper info
respf --info https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.00020

# For corporate networks (SSL issues)
respf "Paper Title" --use-system-certs

# Generate summary.json for PDFs in a folder
respf --summarize --dir ./papers

PDF Summarization

Generate a summary.json file with extracted text from all PDFs in a directory:

# Summarize all PDFs in a directory
respf --summarize --dir ./papers

# Output as JSON
respf --summarize --dir ./papers --json

Output (summary.json):

[
  {
    "pdf_name": "Attention_Is_All_You_Need.pdf",
    "num_pages": 11,
    "first_page_text": "...",
    "abstract_on_first_page": true
  }
]

Install with summarize support:

pip install respf[summarize]
# Also requires: sudo apt install build-essential libpoppler-cpp-dev pkg-config

Python API

from respf import ResearchPaperDownloader, download_paper, get_paper_info

# Simple usage
result = download_paper("Attention Is All You Need", download_dir="papers")

# Or use the class
downloader = ResearchPaperDownloader(download_dir="papers")
result = downloader.download_paper("https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.00020")

# Get info without downloading
info = get_paper_info("Attention Is All You Need")
print(info["title"], info["authors"])

Async API

import asyncio
from respf import ResearchPaperDownloader

async def main():
    downloader = ResearchPaperDownloader(download_dir="papers")
    result = await downloader.async_download_paper("https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.00020")
    print(result)

asyncio.run(main())

Sources

• ArXiv - Direct download by ID or title search
• Google Scholar - Search and find PDFs
• ACM Digital Library - Download from ACM
• Springer Link - Download from Springer
• GitHub - Find PDFs in repositories

Options

Flag	Description
--file, -f	File with citations (one per line)
--parse	Parse academic citation formats (APA, IEEE, Chicago, MLA, BibTeX)
--dir, -d	Download directory (default: papers)
--sources, -s	Sources to use (comma-separated)
--info, -i	Get metadata without downloading
--json, -j	Output as JSON
--summarize	Generate summary.json for PDFs in directory
--use-system-certs	Use system CA certs (corporate networks)

Troubleshooting

SSL Certificate Errors

If you get SSL errors in corporate networks, use --use-system-certs:

respf "Paper Title" --use-system-certs

This uses your system's CA certificates instead of Python's certifi bundle.

License

MIT