Paper Search MCP

Instructions

Implementation Reference

• paper_search_mcp/server.py:1267-1277 (handler)

  The MCP tool handler that receives the read_openalex_paper request and delegates it to the openalex_searcher instance.

  @mcp.tool()
  async def read_openalex_paper(paper_id: str, save_path: str = "./downloads") -> str:
      """Attempt to read and extract text content from an OpenAlex paper.
  
      Args:
          paper_id: OpenAlex paper ID.
          save_path: Directory where the PDF is/will be saved (default: './downloads').
      Returns:
          str: Message indicating that direct paper reading is not supported natively.
      """
      return openalex_searcher.read_paper(paper_id, save_path)

• paper_search_mcp/academic_platforms/openalex.py:165-172 (handler)

  The implementation of the read_paper method within the OpenAlexSearcher class, which informs the user that direct reading is not supported.

  def read_paper(self, paper_id: str, save_path: str = "./downloads") -> str:
      """
      Not implemented for OpenAlex.
      """
      return (
          "OpenAlex papers cannot be read directly through this aggregator. "
          "Please use the paper's DOI or pdf_url to access the full text."
      )