A Python wrapper for the arXiv API.

$ pip install arxiv-cli

You can use arXiv-CLI as a CLI to navigate arXiv or as a library to query its API.

Currently arXiv-CLI implements three subcommands:

$ arxiv download [-t/--timeout seconds] IDS
$ arxiv fetch [-t/--timeout seconds] IDS
$ arxiv find [-i/--ids, -t/--timeout seconds] QUERY

The first two commands accept a list of arXiv ids and, respectively, download the corresponding PDFs or display their metadata in JSON format.

The third command runs a query against arXiv and prints the metadata in JSON format of the records that match. Adding the -i/--ids flag will return only their ids.

Adding the -t/--timeout seconds option will sleep for that amount of seconds between successive requests to the arXiv API.

Note that the previous commands can be chained, therefore running

$ arxiv download $(arxiv find --ids QUERY)

will download all papers that match QUERY, while

$ arxiv fetch $(arxiv find --ids QUERY)

will fetch all their metadata.

The previous CLI is built on top of a Python library that can be used on its own to query arXiv’s API. For example:

>>> from arxiv_cli import Client
>>> client = Client()
>>> client.download([IDS])

will achieve the same effect as

$ arxiv download IDS

Jacopo Notarstefano (@Jaconotar)

MIT