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Scholar MCP

Scholarly papers, patents, books, standards and PDF conversion

pvliesdonk · ↓ 0 installs

Install

Add the config to your client settings. Replace values in <angle brackets> with your own.

claude_desktop_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "scholar-mcp": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "pvliesdonk-scholar-mcp==3.1.1"
      ],
      "env": {
        "SCHOLAR_MCP_KV_STORE_URL": "file:///data/state",
        "SCHOLAR_MCP_TOOLS_ALLOW": "<SCHOLAR_MCP_TOOLS_ALLOW>",
        "SCHOLAR_MCP_TOOLS_DENY": "<SCHOLAR_MCP_TOOLS_DENY>",
        "SCHOLAR_MCP_SERVER_NAME": "<SCHOLAR_MCP_SERVER_NAME>",
        "SCHOLAR_MCP_INSTANCE_DESCRIPTION": "<SCHOLAR_MCP_INSTANCE_DESCRIPTION>",
        "SCHOLAR_MCP_INSTRUCTIONS_EXTRA": "<SCHOLAR_MCP_INSTRUCTIONS_EXTRA>",
        "SCHOLAR_MCP_INSTRUCTIONS": "<SCHOLAR_MCP_INSTRUCTIONS>",
        "SCHOLAR_MCP_LOG_LEVEL": "INFO",
        "SCHOLAR_MCP_LOG_FORMAT": "<SCHOLAR_MCP_LOG_FORMAT>",
        "SCHOLAR_GITHUB_TOKEN": "<SCHOLAR_GITHUB_TOKEN>",
        "SCHOLAR_MCP_READ_ONLY": "true",
        "SCHOLAR_MCP_S2_API_KEY": "<SCHOLAR_MCP_S2_API_KEY>",
        "SCHOLAR_MCP_DOCLING_URL": "<SCHOLAR_MCP_DOCLING_URL>",
        "SCHOLAR_MCP_VLM_API_URL": "<SCHOLAR_MCP_VLM_API_URL>",
        "SCHOLAR_MCP_VLM_API_KEY": "<SCHOLAR_MCP_VLM_API_KEY>",
        "SCHOLAR_MCP_VLM_MODEL": "gpt-4o",
        "SCHOLAR_MCP_CACHE_DIR": "/data/scholar-mcp",
        "SCHOLAR_MCP_CONTACT_EMAIL": "<SCHOLAR_MCP_CONTACT_EMAIL>",
        "SCHOLAR_MCP_EPO_CONSUMER_KEY": "<SCHOLAR_MCP_EPO_CONSUMER_KEY>",
        "SCHOLAR_MCP_EPO_CONSUMER_SECRET": "<SCHOLAR_MCP_EPO_CONSUMER_SECRET>",
        "SCHOLAR_MCP_GOOGLE_BOOKS_API_KEY": "<SCHOLAR_MCP_GOOGLE_BOOKS_API_KEY>",
        "SCHOLAR_MCP_ACCESS_LINKS": "<SCHOLAR_MCP_ACCESS_LINKS>",
        "SCHOLAR_MCP_JOBS_SOFT_DEADLINE_S": "25.0",
        "SCHOLAR_MCP_JOBS_RESULT_TTL_S": "3600.0",
        "SCHOLAR_MCP_JOBS_MAX_PER_SUBJECT": "256"
      }
    }
  }
}

Or in one command — the CLI adds the server to your client config:

CLI

npx ai-point add io.github.pvliesdonk/scholar-mcp

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