Use case
Research across papers or sources
Search academic or web sources together. Then read what you find.
The problem.
Literature research means many searches in different places. Market research does too. Then you read dozens of pages. You read PDFs too.
How Webfold helps.
Step 1
Search academic engines
arXiv, OpenAlex, Crossref and Wikipedia in one call.
webfold search "sea level rise" --consensus --profile academicStep 2
Fetch the paper
Retrieve a paper as chunked Markdown through the hosted API.
POST /v1/arxiv/retrieve {"paper_id":"1706.03762"}Step 3
Convert the PDFs
Turn downloaded PDFs into text.
webfold pdf paper.pdfProducts used.
Worth knowing.
Note
- Search merges other engines' results. We have not published a quality comparison with index-based search APIs.
Try it on your own data.
Run the command-line tool today. Hosted API access is coming.