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👋 Overview

The arXivGPT Paper API offers a powerful solution for converting any arXiv paper into Markdown or plain text formats. Allowing you the following:
  • Power AI agents with structured scientific content
  • Build custom applications leveraging arXiv paper data
  • Enhance research workflows and data analysis
  • Explore and experiment with scientific literature in machine-readable formats

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🚀 Getting Started

Our API is powered by RapidAPI, ensuring a smooth and secure integration process. Follow these simple steps to get started:
  1. Obtain API Credentials:
    • Subscribe to our API and get your key from RapidAPI.
  2. Prepare Your Request:
    • Add your RapidAPI credentials to the request header:
      • x-rapidapi-key
      • x-rapidapi-host
    • Include query parameters:
      • paper_id (required): The arXiv paper identifier
      • num_pages (optional): Number of pages to return
  3. Make the API Call:
    • Choose between Markdown or plain text endpoints
    • Execute your request and receive the converted paper data

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💻 Code Examples

Here are sample code snippets to help you get started quickly: 
import requests

url = "https://arxivgpt.p.rapidapi.com/papers/markdown/"
querystring = {"paper_id": "2408.01800", "num_pages": "5"}
headers = {
    "x-rapidapi-key": "<YOUR_RAPIDAPI_KEY>",
    "x-rapidapi-host": "<YOUR_RAPIDAPI_HOST>"
}

response = requests.get(url, headers=headers, params=querystring)
print(response.text)

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📊 API Response

Our API returns the converted paper content along with metadata. Here’s a sample response structure: 
{
  "paper_id": "2408.01800",
  "content": "# Introduction\n\nThis is the converted paper content...",
  "format": "markdown",
  "pages_returned": 5,
  "total_pages": 15
}

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🛠 Use Cases

  1. Build AGI: Power your AGI with structured scientific content
  2. AI-Powered Literature Review: Train models on structured paper data for automated summarization and analysis.
  3. Custom Search Engines: Build specialized search tools for scientific literature.
  4. Data Visualization: Create interactive visualizations of research trends and connections.
  5. Accessibility Tools: Convert papers to more accessible formats for screen readers or text-to-speech applications.

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📈 Pricing and Limits

Visit our RapidAPI page for up-to-date information on:
  • Free tier limitations
  • Paid plan options
  • Rate limits and usage quotas

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🤝 Support and Feedback

We’re committed to providing an excellent developer experience: We love developer feedback and are constantly working to improve our API. Let us know how we can serve you better!