markxiv

How it works

Replace arxiv with markxiv in any arXiv URL to get the paper as clean Markdown.

Free and open source.

MCP server

Use markxiv as an MCP tool in any MCP client so agents can 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 the MCP README for full documentation.

Support

• GitHub Sponsors