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app arxiv-cli

CLI to download papers from arXiv

2 releases (1 stable)

Uses new Rust 2024

1.0.0 Jan 13, 2026
0.1.0 Jan 12, 2026

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arxiv-cli

Intuitive command-line tool to download the most recent number of papers belonging a specific category from arXiv.

Installation

# with npm
npm install @cle-does-things/arxiv-cli

# with cargo
cargo install arxiv-cli

Check installation:

arxiv-cli --help

Usage

arxiv-cli [OPTIONS] --category <CATEGORY>

Options:

  • -q, --query <QUERY>: Keyword-based query to use when searching arXiv (required)
  • -l, --limit <LIMIT>: The maximum number of papers to fetch (default: 5)
  • -p, --pdf: Fetch and save the PDF of each paper
  • -s, --summary: Save the summary of each paper as a .txt file
  • --no-metadata: Disable fetching and saving metadata to a .jsonl file
  • -h, --help: Print help information
  • -V, --version: Print version information

Dependencies

~15–33MB
~380K SLoC