OpenReview Paper Downloader

Simple download of all oral, spotlight, accepted, or rejected papers from OpenReview into tidy folders by decision.

Despite the name, this works for any OpenReview-hosted conference (NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML, etc.).

Installation

pip install openreview_downloader

Usage

The CLI saves PDFs into downloads/<venue>/<decision>/ with sanitized filenames.

Available decisions:

• oral – Oral presentations
• spotlight – Spotlight presentations
• accepted – All accepted papers
• rejected – Rejected papers

Basic examples (NeurIPS)

Download all NeurIPS oral papers:

ordl oral --venue-id NeurIPS.cc/2025/Conference

Download Output:

downloads
└── neurips2025
    └── oral
        ├── 27970_Deep_Compositional_Phase_Diffusion.pdf
        ...
        └── 28928_Generalized_Linear_Mode_Connectivity.pdf

Download all NeurIPS oral and spotlight papers:

ordl oral,spotlight --venue-id NeurIPS.cc/2025/Conference

Download all accepted NeurIPS papers (any presentation type):

ordl accepted --venue-id NeurIPS.cc/2025/Conference

See decision counts without downloading:

ordl --info --venue-id NeurIPS.cc/2025/Conference

Example output:

NeurIPS 2025
---
Oral: 77
Spotlight: 687
Accepted: 5287
Rejected: 255

Other Conferences (ICLR, ICML, etc.)

Just change the --venue-id to the appropriate OpenReview handle.

ICLR 2025 orals only:

ordl oral --venue-id ICLR.cc/2025/Conference

ICLR 2025 accepted papers (all formats):

ordl accepted --venue-id ICLR.cc/2025/Conference

ICML 2025 oral + spotlight:

ordl oral,spotlight --venue-id ICML.cc/2025/Conference

You can use any other OpenReview venue ID in the same way.

CLI Options

• DECISIONS (positional) – Comma-separated list of decisions to download (oral, spotlight, accepted, rejected)
• --venue-id – OpenReview venue ID (default: NeurIPS.cc/2025/Conference or env VENUE_ID)
• --out-dir – Custom output directory (default: downloads/<venue>/)
• --no-skip-existing – Re-download even if the PDF is already present
• --info – Print decision counts for the venue and exit

Development

Install in editable mode with development dependencies:

pip install -e '.[dev]'

License

This project is licensed under the Apache License 2.0 - see the LICENSE file for details.