Refnet

In this project, I use Crossref API to fetch the metadata of academic papers, cache them in a local sqlite database, and calculate the importance of papers based on the CiteRank algorithm. I also write a web UI to visualize the most important articles under the reference network of a given paper. You can also generate a literature review based on these papers with an OpenAI api key easily.

Pre-requisites

• rustc and cargo
• pnpm

Usage

Required environment varibales:

• LOCAL_ADDR (Backend address. Default to 127.0.0.1:3030)
• OPENAI_API_KEY (Required if you need literature reviews generated by GPT)

Required environment varibales in frontend/.env:

• VITE_API_URL (Through which the frontend call the backend APIs. As http://127.0.0.1:3030)
• VITE_WS_URL (As ws://127.0.0.1:3030)

Then run with:

# dev mode
make dev
# release mode
make run

Then visit to your LOCAL_ADDR in the browser.

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