
I Built a CLI to Search 800M+ Academic Papers From Your Terminal
I got tired of switching between 6 different academic databases. OpenAlex for bibliometrics, Crossref for DOIs, PubMed for medical papers, Semantic Scholar for AI summaries... So I combined them all into one CLI. $ research search "large language models" --limit 3 1. Attention Is All You Need ( 2017 ) Authors: Ashish Vaswani, Noam Shazeer, Niki Parmar Citations: 95,234 | Source: OpenAlex 2. Language Models are Few-Shot Learners ( 2020 ) Authors: Tom Brown, Benjamin Mann, Nick Ryder Citations: 28,847 | Source: OpenAlex 3. BERT: Pre-training of Deep Bidirectional Transformers ( 2019 ) Authors: Jacob Devlin, Ming-Wei Chang, Kenton Lee Citations: 78,421 | Source: OpenAlex One Command, 7 Databases # Default (OpenAlex — 250M+ papers) research search "quantum computing" # Medical papers (PubMed — 36M+) research search "covid vaccine" --source pubmed # AI-powered with TLDR summaries (Semantic Scholar — 200M+) research search "chain of thought" --source semantic-scholar # DOI metadata (Crossref
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