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paperhound

Hunt papers from the terminal

Python · CLI · Async2026Alejandro Fernández Camello

A lightweight Python CLI that unifies the largest scientific indexes. Search, read abstracts, download PDFs, explore citations, export to BibTeX, and keep a local library - all from your terminal.

paperhound in action

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Find ReAct from 2022, inspect its metadata and prepare the BibTeX reference.
paperhound
paperhound search ReAct --year 2022 -s arxiv --json -n 3

  1. ReAct: Synergizing Reasoning and Acting in Language Models

    arXiv:2210.03629 · 2022

  2. ReAct: A Review Comment Dataset for Actionability (and more)

    arXiv:2210.00443 · 2022

  3. ReAct: Temporal Action Detection with Relational Queries

    arXiv:2207.07097 · 2022

Replay of real commands and results. No live searches.

Seven sources, one tool

paperhound queries the major scientific indexes and aggregates results with consistent metadata.

arXiv
Preprints in physics, math, CS, and biology.
OpenAlex
Open graph of the world’s academic literature.
DBLP
The canonical computer-science bibliography.
Crossref
DOI resolution and publisher metadata.
HF Papers
Trending papers from the Hugging Face community.
Semantic Scholar
AI-powered search with enriched citation data.
CORE
The largest aggregator of open-access papers.

Follow the citation trail

Explore references and citing works as a tree. Reach the frontier of a topic without getting lost.

ReferencesCited by
Follow the citation trailBahdanau et al. - Align & TranslatearXiv:1409.0473Sutskever et al. - Seq2SeqarXiv:1409.3215He et al. - ResNetarXiv:1512.03385Devlin et al. - BERTarXiv:1810.04805Brown et al. - GPT-3arXiv:2005.14165Dosovitskiy et al. - ViTarXiv:2010.11929Vaswani et al.arXiv:1706.03762

Features

Everything you need for a reproducible literature review.

Multi-source search

One query over 7 indexes: arXiv, OpenAlex, DBLP, Crossref, HF Papers, Semantic Scholar, and CORE.

Frictionless reading

Read abstracts in the terminal, download PDFs, and convert them to Markdown ready for your agent.

Citation graph

Explore references and citations recursively to find both the origin and the frontier of a topic.

Export anywhere

BibTeX, RIS, and CSL-JSON ready for LaTeX, Zotero, or any reference manager.

Local library

Save papers, tag them, and find them again without re-searching online.

Open source

MIT licensed and installable from PyPI in a single command. Contributions welcome.

Try it now

One-command install. Works on macOS, Linux, and Windows with Python 3.10+.

Install from PyPI

$ pip install paperhound
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