OpenReview

Mode: 🌐 Public · Domain: openreview.net

OpenReview is the open peer-review platform used by ICLR, COLM, NeurIPS workshops, TMLR, and many other ML venues. The v2 API exposes everyone-readable submissions, reviews, and decisions without authentication, so all five commands run without a browser.

Commands

Command	Description
opencli openreview search <query>	Full-text search across all OpenReview papers
opencli openreview venue <venue>	List papers at a venue (e.g. "ICLR 2024 oral" or full invitation id)
opencli openreview author <profile>	List submissions by an author profile id (e.g. "~Yoshua_Bengio1"), newest first
opencli openreview paper <id>	Show full metadata (incl. abstract) for a single paper
opencli openreview reviews <forum>	Show paper + threaded reviews/decisions/comments

Usage Examples

# Full-text search
opencli openreview search "diffusion model" --limit 10

# Browse a venue by display name (matched against content.venue)
opencli openreview venue "ICLR 2024 oral" --limit 20

# Browse a venue by full invitation id (use this when display names overlap)
opencli openreview venue "ICLR.cc/2025/Conference/-/Submission" --limit 50 --offset 0

# Every submission by an author profile id (find it on the author's openreview.net profile URL)
opencli openreview author "~Yoshua_Bengio1" --limit 20

# Single-paper detail (full abstract)
opencli openreview paper KS8mIvetg2

# Full review thread — paper + reviews + decision + author rebuttal
opencli openreview reviews KS8mIvetg2 --max-length 4000

# JSON output
opencli openreview search "LLM" -f json

Output Columns

Command	Columns
search	rank, id, title, authors, venue, pdate, url
venue	rank, id, title, authors, keywords, primary_area, pdate, pdf, url
author	rank, id, title, authors, venue, pdate, url
paper	id, title, authors, keywords, venue, venueid, primary_area, abstract, pdate, pdf, url
reviews	type, author, rating, confidence, text

The id returned by search/venue/author round-trips into paper/reviews — it is the OpenReview note id (also the forum id for top-level submissions). pdf is normalized to an absolute https://openreview.net/pdf/... URL.

reviews Output

reviews walks the forum's reply tree once and emits one row per note in chronological order, with the original submission lifted to the top:

type	When emitted
PAPER	The submission itself (always row 0)
REVIEW	An Official_Review reply
META_REVIEW	A meta-review by Area Chairs
DECISION	The final decision note
REBUTTAL	An author rebuttal note
COMMENT	An Official_Comment reply
WITHDRAWAL	A withdrawal confirmation

rating and confidence are the raw OpenReview enum strings (e.g. "6: marginally above the acceptance threshold"). text joins together the standard sections — Summary, Strengths, Weaknesses, Questions, Comment, Rebuttal, Decision, Recommendation — and is per-row truncated to --max-length (default 4000, min 200).

Caveats

• OpenReview indexes a lot of DBLP-mirrored entries (CoRR / journal records). Search results may include those alongside actual OpenReview submissions; only OpenReview-hosted papers have full review threads available via reviews.
• The default sort for search is the API's relevance-by-term ranking. For a chronological view, use venue against the relevant invitation.
• pdate (publication date) falls back to cdate (creation date) when missing, formatted as YYYY-MM-DD.
• venue accepts either a display name ("ICLR 2024 oral", matched against content.venue) or a full invitation id ("ICLR.cc/2025/Conference/-/Submission"). The presence of the literal /-/ segment is what disambiguates the two modes.

Prerequisites

• No browser required — uses the public OpenReview v2 API at https://api2.openreview.net.