Paper Grab

Fetch latest academic papers from English and Chinese social science journals. No LLM required.

• English journals: CrossRef API (by ISSN)
• Chinese journals / 中文期刊: NCPSSD API (by ISSN)
• Scholars: CrossRef ORCID

Quick Start

1. Edit examples/config.yaml to select your journals
2. Double-click to run:
   • macOS: run.command
   • Windows: run.bat
3. Results are saved in examples/papers/

First run will auto-install dependencies. Requires Python 3.9+.

Online Version

No install needed: https://huggingface.co/spaces/neo2momoka/paper-grab

config.yaml

rows: 0            # papers per source (0 = full latest issue)
output: papers     # output directory
format: csv        # csv or md (Obsidian-compatible)
mailto: ""         # optional email for faster CrossRef API

en_journals:
  - name: American Sociological Review
    issn: "0003-1224"

cn_journals:
  - name: 社会学研究
    issn: "1002-5936"

scholars:
  - name: James Evans
    orcid: "0000-0001-9838-0707"

Python API

pip install .

from paper_grab import PaperGrab

PaperGrab("config.yaml").run()