OpenReview MCP server

A Model Context Protocol (MCP) server that provides access to OpenReview data for research and analysis. This server allows you to search for users, fetch papers, and export research data from major ML conferences (ICML, ICLR, NeurIPS).

Features

• User search: Find OpenReview profiles by email address
• Paper retrieval: Fetch all papers by a specific author
• Conference papers: Get papers from specific venues (ICLR, NeurIPS, ICML) and years
• Keyword search: Search papers by keywords across multiple conferences
• JSON&PDF export: Export search results to PDF and JSON files for convenient reading or further analysis and coding assistant usage

Installation

1. Clone the repository

git clone https://github.com/yourusername/openreview-mcp-server.git
cd openreview-mcp-server

2. Create and activate virtual environment

python3 -m venv venv
source venv/bin/activate  # On Windows: venv\Scripts\activate

3. Install the package

pip install -e .

Configuration for Cursor

Step 1: Get your OpenReview credentials

You'll need your OpenReview account email and password.

Step 2: Find your Cursor MCP configuration file

Either run cmd+shift+P to open the Command Palette and find MCP settings that will lead you to the mcp.json, or look for:

Cursor: ~/.cursor/mcp.json

Step 3: Add the OpenReview MCP server

Open the MCP configuration file and add the openreview server to the mcpServers section:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "openreview": {
      "command": "/ABSOLUTE/PATH/TO/openreview-mcp-server/venv/bin/python",
      "args": ["-m", "openreview_mcp_server"],
      "cwd": "/ABSOLUTE/PATH/TO/openreview-mcp-server",
      "env": {
        "OPENREVIEW_USERNAME": "your_email@domain.com",
        "OPENREVIEW_PASSWORD": "your_password",
        "OPENREVIEW_BASE_URL": "https://api2.openreview.net",
        "OPENREVIEW_DEFAULT_EXPORT_DIR": "./openreview_exports"
      }
    }
  }
}

Important:

• Replace /ABSOLUTE/PATH/TO/openreview-mcp-server with the actual path (e.g., /Users/yourname/workspace/openreview-mcp-server)
• Replace your_email@domain.com and your_password with your OpenReview credentials
• Use the full path to the venv Python interpreter (ending in /venv/bin/python)

Example configuration:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "openreview": {
      "command": "/Users/john/workspace/openreview-mcp-server/venv/bin/python",
      "args": ["-m", "openreview_mcp_server"],
      "cwd": "/Users/john/workspace/openreview-mcp-server",
      "env": {
        "OPENREVIEW_USERNAME": "john@university.edu",
        "OPENREVIEW_PASSWORD": "mySecurePassword123",
        "OPENREVIEW_BASE_URL": "https://api2.openreview.net",
        "OPENREVIEW_DEFAULT_EXPORT_DIR": "./openreview_exports"
      }
    }
  }
}

Step 4: Restart Cursor

Completely quit and reopen Cursor for the MCP server to load.

Usage

Once configured and Cursor is restarted, you can use natural language to interact with the OpenReview MCP server:

Example queries:

Search for papers:

Search OpenReview for papers about "multimodal tokenization" from ICML 2025, ICLR 2025 and NeurIPS 2025

Get your own papers:

Get my papers from OpenReview using email researcher@university.edu

Export papers with PDFs:

Export papers about "multimodal tokenization" from ICLR 2024, download PDFs and extract text

Get conference papers:

Show me all papers from NeurIPS 2024

The server will automatically:

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