xby-dblp

Composing a literature review, double-checking a citation, or wrangling a .bib file has long meant constant tab-switching between DBLP and your editor. xby-dblp collapses that entire loop into one chat session. Speaking MCP to the DBLP computer-science database, it lets you run boolean queries with year and venue filters, fuzzy-match paper titles, pull every publication by a named author, and get instant statistics on publication ranges, top authors, and top venues without ever leaving the conversation.

Two capability groups do the heavy lifting. For discovery, the plugin supports and/or boolean queries, publication-year bounds, and case-insensitive venue filtering, returning structured metadata including title, authors, DOI, and URL. For citation management, it provides a collect-and-export workflow: add each paper by its DBLP key into a session collection, assign your preferred citation key, and a single export command writes a clean .bib file. It can also confirm the formal name, acronym, and type of a venue such as ICLR or NeurIPS in one call, and compute batch statistics across any result set.

The tool is aimed at researchers drafting systems, ML, or NLP papers, as well as engineers who need to verify the exact venue and year of a reference mid-conversation. Set the API key once in chat and it persists across restarts; there are no local services to deploy or maintain.