Semantic Scholar Search

Searches Semantic Scholar for papers or authors. Downloads the papers as pdfs if they are on arxive.

Installation

pip install semser

or clone and install

git clone https://github.com/fergusfettes/semser
cd semser
poetry install

Usage

Search for some terms. You will get a list of papers to choose from.

$ semser search "retrieval augmented generation"
1. Retrieval-Augmented Generation for Knowledge-Intensive NLP Tasks, Bob et al., 15 Nov 2019
...
Papers to retrieve: 1
Downloading

Search for an author. You can select a likely looking author and you will be shown a selection of their papers.

$ semser author "Schmidhuber"
1. Jürgen Schmidhuber, 1 Jan 2015
...
Authors to retrieve: 1
1. Paper 1, 1 Jan 2015
2. Paper 2, 1 Jan 2015
Papers to retrieve: 1
Downloading

The 'limit' applies to authors and to papers by the author:

$ semser author "Schmidhuber" --limit 2

Will only return two papers by them. But you can grab their id and use it instead:

$ semser author 145341374 --limit 50

You can also search for a paper by its Semantic Scholar ID, or by its DOI, or just use the url from semantic scholar.

$ semser paper "10.1162/neco.1997.9.8.1735"
Downloading

Since it is made with typer, you can also just type

$ semser --help
$ semser search --help

to get a list of commands and options.