markxiv.org

Markdown formatted arxiv papers

How it works

Simply replace the 'arxiv' in an arXiv URL with 'markxiv' to get the Markdown version

arxiv.org/abs/1234.56789 ==> markxiv.org/abs/1234.56789

Free and Open Source

MCP Server

Use markxiv as an MCP tool in any MCP client to allow agents to convert arXiv papers to markdown directly.

Install

# requires pandoc and poppler-utils (pdftotext)
cargo install --git https://github.com/tonydavis629/markxiv --path mcp

Configure

Add to your MCP config:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "markxiv": {
      "command": "markxiv-mcp"
    }
  }
}

Tools

• convert_paper — convert an arXiv paper to markdown (e.g. paper_id: "1706.03762")
• get_paper_metadata — get title, authors, and abstract
• search_papers — search arXiv by keyword

See mcp/README.md for full documentation.

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