dblp

Mode: 🌐 Public · Domain: dblp.org

dblp is the comprehensive computer-science bibliography maintained by Schloss Dagstuhl, indexing 7M+ publications across conferences, journals, books, and theses. Both commands hit the public API directly — no auth, no browser.

Commands

Command	Description
opencli dblp search <query>	Free-text search across titles, authors, and venues
opencli dblp author <name>	List one author's recent publications (newest first) by name or --pid
opencli dblp paper <key>	Fetch a single record's full metadata by canonical dblp key
opencli dblp venue <query>	Search dblp's venue (conference / journal) registry

Usage Examples

# Free-text search (matches title / author / venue)
opencli dblp search "attention is all you need" --limit 5

# Author search
opencli dblp search "Yoshua Bengio" --limit 20

# Newest publications by a specific author (resolves the dblp PID for you)
opencli dblp author "Yoshua Bengio" --limit 20

# Same call, but skip name resolution by supplying the PID directly
opencli dblp author --pid 56/953 --limit 20

# Venue search
opencli dblp search "ICLR 2024" --limit 30

# Single-record detail (round-trip from search.key)
opencli dblp paper conf/nips/VaswaniSPUJGKP17

# arXiv mirror records use the journals/corr/abs-* form
opencli dblp paper journals/corr/abs-2509-05821

# Resolve a venue acronym to dblp's canonical venue page
opencli dblp venue ICLR --limit 5

# Browse venues that match a topic keyword
opencli dblp venue "neural networks" --limit 10

# JSON output
opencli dblp search "graph neural network" -f json

Output Columns

Command	Columns
search	rank, key, title, authors, venue, year, type, doi, url
author	rank, key, title, authors, venue, year, type, doi, pid, url
paper	key, type, title, authors, venue, year, pages, doi, open_access_url, dblp_url
venue	rank, acronym, venue, type, url

The key column from search and author round-trips into paper — it is dblp's canonical record identifier (e.g. conf/nips/VaswaniSPUJGKP17, journals/corr/abs-2509-05821, phd/Smith20).

The pid column on author is dblp's stable per-author identifier (e.g. 56/953 for Yoshua Bengio). Pass it back with --pid to skip name resolution on subsequent calls.

Type Tag

The type column is a single-token simplification of dblp's verbose type strings:

Tag	Source
conf	Conference and Workshop Papers (<inproceedings>)
journal	Journal Articles (<article>)
book	Books and Theses
editorship	Proceedings volumes
reference	Reference Works
preprint	Informal / Other Publications (CoRR, etc.)
incollection / phdthesis / mastersthesis	(paper command only — kept distinct in the XML record)

Caveats

• dblp does not expose abstracts via either endpoint. For the abstract, follow open_access_url (when present), doi, or pipe the title into arxiv search / openreview search.
• Author names occasionally carry dblp's per-author homonym suffix ("Smith 0001"). The adapter strips trailing 4+ digit groups so you get clean Author, Author strings.
• Search results include CoRR / arXiv mirror entries. These have keys like journals/corr/abs-2509-05821 and round-trip cleanly into paper.
• dblp throttles aggressive clients. If you hit HTTP 429, wait a few seconds and lower --limit (max 100 per page).

Prerequisites

• No browser required — uses the public dblp API at https://dblp.org.
• The adapter sets a polite User-Agent per dblp's API guidance.