Paper Download MCP Server

An MCP server for downloading academic papers from multiple sources using intelligent routing and year-aware priority selection. It enables users to retrieve metadata and download single or batch PDFs by DOI or URL.

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// key findings

✅

No credential exfiltration, no sensitive file access, no obfuscation

Static analysis found nothing flowing your secrets to unexpected places.

✅

Open source with a license and README

Anyone can audit the code, the license is declared, and the publisher documents what it does.

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You'll be asked for 2 credentials: CORE_API_KEY, OPENALEX_API_KEY

These are read from process.env at runtime. Make sure you trust where they’ll be sent.

// required environment variables

This server reads these from process.env. You'll be asked to provide them before it can run.

configSCIHUB_AUTO_TUNING_PATH

configSCIHUB_OUTPUT_DIR

configSCIHUB_TIMEOUT

configSCIHUB_RETRIES

configSCIHUB_PARALLEL

configSCIHUB_YEAR_THRESHOLD

configSCIHUB_ENABLE_ROUTING

configSCIHUB_CLI_EMAIL

🔐 secretCORE_API_KEY

🔐 secretOPENALEX_API_KEY

// full audit trail

The full breakdown of what we checked, the deductions that landed, the network hosts, the dependency advisories, and concrete fix guidance is available to verified publishers.

// improvement guidance — verified publishers only

We have 4 concrete improvements we can share with the publisher of this MCP. Each comes with specific guidance to raise the trust score.

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commit: 9427dfee720ba2bcedd37856d383855de46e1d3e

code hash: ef589c269bb783987c5d13549272e2b924975fd0f73b94fcd939dde006d8a157

verified: 6/17/2026, 12:17:03 PM

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