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Scholar Sidekick

Command-line client for Scholar Sidekick - resolve any scholarly identifier (DOI, PMID, PMCID, ISBN, arXiv, ISSN, NASA ADS bibcode, WHO IRIS URL) into 10,000+ citation styles or nine export formats, and run retraction, open-access, and citation-fabrication checks, straight from your terminal.

2 stars TypeScript MIT License
mlava 399 Jun 10, 2026
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npm description now fits the registry's 255-character cap; adds a shortdoi keyword.

Everything since v0.1.1 — the 0.1.2 and 0.1.3 npm releases were never cut here.
New — scholar audit
Audit a whole bibliography in one call. Reads BibTeX, RIS, or CSL-JSON from a file or stdin (max 25 entries), runs the per-entry fabrication check plus a retraction lookup, and prints a verdict table with a corpus summary.
``bashscholar audit refs.bibscholar audit refs.bib --fail-on-issues # non-zero exit for CI`
Flags:
--format, --no-retraction, --screen-with-llm, --fail-on-issues.
First-party API keys
First-party
ssk keys now go out as Authorization: Bearer ssk…, so a signed-in key gets its own rate-limit tier instead of the anonymous one.
Other
  • shortDOI aliases (10/abc123) are accepted anywhere a DOI is.
  • Cross-repo endpoint-contract drift check in CI.
  • Terminal demo assets in the README.

`bashnpm install -g scholar-sidekick-cli``
npm: https://www.npmjs.com/package/scholar-sidekick-cli

Send the X-Scholar-Client: scholar-sidekick-cli/<version> handshake header on every request, so anonymous calls land on the recognised trusted-client tier of the Scholar Sidekick API.
No interface changes — same commands and flags as v0.1.0.
``bashnpm install -g scholar-sidekick-cli``
npm: https://www.npmjs.com/package/scholar-sidekick-cli

Initial release — terminal client for the Scholar Sidekick REST API.
``bashnpm install -g scholar-sidekick-cliornpx scholar-sidekick-cli format 10.1016/S0140-6736\(26\)00603-3 --style apa`
Commands: format, resolve, export, format-items, stream, verify, retraction, oa, styles, health.
  • Human-readable output by default; --json on every command.
  • Works anonymously against the free tier (no key); --rapidapi-key / --api-key` supported.
  • Typed exit codes (0 ok / 1 api / 2 network / 3 usage).

npm: https://www.npmjs.com/package/scholar-sidekick-cli

Installation

npm install -g scholar-sidekick-cli
pnpm install -g scholar-sidekick-cli
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