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ScholarClaw is a comprehensive academic search skill for LobsterAI/OpenClaw, providing intelligent search capabilities across multiple academic databases, citation tracking, paper blog generation, and SOTA benchmark analysis.
Built by NetEase Youdao, it integrates seamlessly with the LobsterAI agent framework to help researchers and students discover, analyze, and understand academic literature.
Key Features
Unified Search — Search across ArXiv, PubMed, OpenAlex, NeurIPS, CVF, and more
Scholar Search — AI-powered academic search with query analysis and reranking
Citation Analysis — Track citations and discover related work
Blog Generation — Generate blog articles from academic papers
SOTA Chat — Query benchmark/SOTA results via natural language
Recommendations — Get trending papers and GitHub repositories
When to Use
Trigger Phrase
Example
Academic Search
"Search papers about transformers on ArXiv"
SOTA/Benchmark
"What's the SOTA for MMLU benchmark?"
Citations
"Who cited this paper?"
Paper Analysis
"Generate a blog from this paper"
Recommendations
"Show me trending ML papers"
Quick Start
Prerequisites
LobsterAI or OpenClaw installed
Node.js 16+ (for TypeScript client)
curl & jq (for shell scripts)
Installation
Method 1: Natural Language (Recommended)
"Install the skill from https://github.com/netease-youdao/scholarclaw"
Method 2: Manual Installation
# Clone the repository
git clone https://github.com/netease-youdao/scholarclaw.git
# Copy skill to LobsterAI skills directory
cp -r scholarclaw /path/to/lobsterai/SKILLs/
Configuration
# In LobsterAI config.yaml
skills:
- name: scholarclaw
enabled: true
config:
serverUrl: "https://scholarclaw.youdao.com"
apiKey: "your-api-key" # Optional, apply at https://scholarclaw.youdao.com/
Or via environment variables:
export SCHOLARCLAW_SERVER_URL="https://scholarclaw.youdao.com"
export SCHOLARCLAW_API_KEY="your-api-key" # Optional, apply at https://scholarclaw.youdao.com/
Usage Examples
Search Papers
# Search ArXiv
./scripts/search.sh -q "transformer attention" -e arxiv -l 20
# Search with time range
./scripts/search.sh -q "LLM reasoning" -e google --time-range month
# Scholar search with AI analysis
./scripts/scholar.sh -q "What are the latest advances in multimodal learning?"
Citation Analysis
# Get citation statistics
./scripts/citations_stats.sh -i 1706.03762
# List citing papers
./scripts/citations.sh -i 1706.03762 -p 1 -ps 20
# Find paper via OpenAlex and get citations
./scripts/openalex_find.sh -t "Attention Is All You Need" --fetch-works
Blog Generation
# Generate blog from paper
./scripts/blog_submit.sh -i 2303.14535
# Check status and get result
./scripts/blog_status.sh -i blog_xxxxxxxxxxxx
./scripts/blog_result.sh -i blog_xxxxxxxxxxxx -o blog.md
SOTA Queries
# Ask about benchmarks
./scripts/benchmark_chat.sh -m "What is the SOTA for MMLU benchmark?"
# Streaming mode for long responses
./scripts/benchmark_chat.sh -m "Compare GPT-4 and Claude on various benchmarks" -s
Recommendations
# Get trending papers from HuggingFace
./scripts/recommend_papers.sh -l 12
# Get recommended blogs
./scripts/recommend_blogs.sh -l 10
# Get GitHub repos for a paper
./scripts/paper_repos.sh -i 2303.14535
Health Check
./scripts/health.sh
Supported Search Engines
Engine
Description
arxiv
ArXiv preprint server
pubmed
PubMed biomedical literature
google
Google Search (via SerpDev)
kuake
Kuake search (Chinese)
bocha
Bocha AI search
nips
NeurIPS papers
thecvf
CVF/CVPR papers
mlr_press
MLR Press papers
openalex
OpenAlex academic database
API Reference
Search Endpoints
Endpoint
Method
Description
/search
GET
Unified search across engines
/scholar/search
POST
AI-powered academic search
Citation Endpoints
Endpoint
Method
Description
/citations
GET
List citing papers
/citations/stats
GET
Citation statistics
/openalex/cited_by
GET
OpenAlex citations
Content Generation
Endpoint
Method
Description
/api/blog/submit
POST
Submit blog task
/api/blog/result/{id}
GET
Get blog result
SOTA Chat
Endpoint
Method
Description
/api/benchmark/chat
POST
SOTA chat
/api/benchmark/chat/stream
POST
SOTA chat (streaming)
Configuration
Environment Variables
Variable
Default
Description
SCHOLARCLAW_SERVER_URL
https://scholarclaw.youdao.com
API server URL
SCHOLARCLAW_API_KEY
-
API Key (optional, apply at https://scholarclaw.youdao.com/)
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Is netease-youdao/ScholarClaw open source?
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