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paper-dl turns PaSa exports into local PDFs
paper-dl is a lightweight CLI that turns PaSa-exported JSON into local PDFs. It adds concurrency, retries, skip-on-rerun behavior, and a failure log for missing downloads.
// ANALYSIS
Hot take: this is not trying to be another paper search engine; it’s the glue that makes a good search result set actually useful on disk.
- –It fills the gap between PaSa’s ranked metadata export and a usable local corpus.
- –The workflow is simple: export JSON, run `paper-dl`, get a folder of PDFs plus `failed.txt` for anything that needs a second pass.
- –Concurrency and automatic skipping make it suitable for larger batches without babysitting.
- –Best fit is local research automation and retrieval pipelines, especially when you want PDFs rather than just links and abstracts.
// TAGS
arxivpdfpaper-downloaderresearchraglocal-aiopensource
DISCOVERED
21d ago
2026-03-21
PUBLISHED
21d ago
2026-03-21
RELEVANCE
6/ 10
AUTHOR
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