Refly

Refly is a lightweight command-line tool that extracts research paper details from BibTeX entries and downloads the corresponding PDFs from arXiv or Sci-Hub. Each paper is saved using a standardized filename based on the first author's last name, publication year, and title. Duplicate downloads are automatically avoided.

Installation

Clone the repository and install the dependencies:

git clone https://github.com/yourusername/refly.git
cd refly
pip install -r requirements.txt

Alternatively, install the dependencies manually:

pip install arxiv bibtexparser scidownl tqdm

Usage

Run Refly from the command line. For example, to process a single BibTeX file:

python refly.py -b path/to/your.bib -o papers

Or to process all BibTeX files in a folder:

python refly.py -f path/to/bibtex_folder -o papers

Dependencies

• Python 3.6+
• arxiv
• bibtexparser
• scidownl
• tqdm

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License.