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Paper Distill MCP

Academic paper search across 11 sources with AI curation, ranked push, Zotero and Obsidian support.

Python

★ 66 stars Last pushed 2026-03-24 License: AGPL-3.0

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Review any command before running it. Package names and URLs come from the server's own registry entry.

Package (pypi 0.2.4)

uvx paper-distill-mcp

Or add to your MCP client config:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "paper-distill-mcp": {
      "command": "uvx",
      "args": [
        "paper-distill-mcp"
      ],
      "env": {
        "CORE_API_KEY": "<YOUR_VALUE>",
        "TELEGRAM_BOT_TOKEN": "<YOUR_VALUE>",
        "DISCORD_WEBHOOK_URL": "<YOUR_VALUE>",
        "ZOTERO_API_KEY": "<YOUR_VALUE>"
      }
    }
  }
}

OPENALEX_EMAIL — Email for OpenAlex polite pool (higher rate limits) and Unpaywall queries
CORE_API_KEY secret — CORE API key for enhanced open-access paper retrieval (free at core.ac.uk)
TELEGRAM_BOT_TOKEN secret — Telegram bot token for paper delivery
TELEGRAM_CHAT_ID — Telegram chat ID for paper delivery
DISCORD_WEBHOOK_URL secret — Discord webhook URL for paper delivery
ZOTERO_LIBRARY_ID — Zotero user ID for saving papers to your library
ZOTERO_API_KEY secret — Zotero API key for saving papers to your library