🕵️‍♂️ PaperHunter

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PaperHunter is a robust academic paper discovery and precision filtering tool that fetches research from over 300 top computer science conferences via DBLP.

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✨ Features

• 🔍 Conference Coverage: Supports 300+ CS conferences across AI, ML, Systems, Networking, Security, Databases...
• 🧠 Advanced Filtering: Use logical AND/OR with keywords for precise search
• 📆 Multi-Year Query: Easily search across a year range
• 🔁 Robust Crawling: Retry & delay mechanisms to respect DBLP
• 🛠 Easy to Use: Advanced CLI with optional legacy mode

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🎓 Supported Conferences

• Artificial Intelligence: AAAI, NeurIPS, ICML, CVPR, ICCV, etc.
• Systems & Architecture: ASPLOS, ISCA, MICRO, OSDI, SOSP, etc.
• Networking: SIGCOMM, NSDI, INFOCOM, MobiCom, etc.
• Security & Cryptography: CCS, USENIX Security, NDSS, S&P, Eurocrypt, etc.
• Databases: SIGMOD, VLDB, ICDE, KDD, etc.

👉 See full list of supported conferences:

paperhunter conference

This will output a list of supported conferences, showing their abbreviation (used in -con) and full name.

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⚙️ Installation

Prerequisites

• Python ≥ 3.6
• Required packages: requests, beautifulsoup4

Steps

Clone repo

git clone https://github.com/yourusername/paperhunter.git
cd PaperHunter

Install

chmod +x install.sh
./install.sh

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🚀 Usage

✅ Advanced Mode (Recommended)

paperhunter -con <conf1> [<conf2> ...] -year <year>|<start>-<end> [-kw <kw1> ...] [-kw_all <kw1> ...]

Flag	Description
-con	One or more conference abbreviations (or all)
-year	A specific year or a range (e.g., 2021-2023)
-kw	At least one keyword must appear (OR)
-kw_all	All keywords must appear (AND)

🔍 Examples: Searching Cybersecurity Papers from NDSS, S&P, USENIX Security and CCS

1. Search for "vulnerability" or "malware" papers in NDSS and USENIX Security (2021–2024):

paperhunter -con ndss security -year 2021-2024 -kw "vulnerability" "malware"

2. Search IEEE S&P (Oakland) 2023 papers that must include "attack" and at least one of ["IoT", "firmware"]:

paperhunter -con sp -year 2023 -kw "IoT" "firmware" -kw_all "attack"

3. Find papers in CCS (ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security) from 2020 to 2022 related to "side channel":

paperhunter -con ccs -year 2020-2022 -kw "side channel"

4. Search all supported conferences for "DNS hijacking" in the year 2024:

paperhunter -con all -year 2024 -kw "DNS hijacking"

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🛠 Special Commands

Show help:

paperhunter help

List all supported conferences:

paperhunter conference

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📄 Output Format

• ✅ Status updates per conference/year
• 📊 Total number of matched papers
• 📄 Detailed list with:
  • Conference
  • Year
  • Paper title

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⚠️ Notes

• Randomized delays and retry logic protect DBLP from aggressive crawling
• Conference data depends on DBLP URL patterns (with fallback logic)
• Keyword matching is case-insensitive
• Large-scale queries (e.g., all + 2020-2024) take time ⏱

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📜 License

This project is released under the MIT License. See the LICENSE file for details.

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🙏 Acknowledgments

• Powered by DBLP Computer Science Bibliography
• Conference list curated from top-tier venues across computer science domains