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peterdunson/renderscholar

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Tired of LLMs citing fake papers? renderscholar is a Google Scholar scraper (inspired by Andrej Karpathy’s rendergit) that pulls real papers, ranks them by relevance/citations/recency, and outputs an HTML file with a Human view for browsing and an LLM view for safe copy-pasting into models.

3 mentions on Hacker News by 1 person: 2 stories, 1 comment · first 2025-10-02 · latest 2025-10-03

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    RenderScholar – Scrape real papers from Google Scholar (no hallucinations)
    story by peterdunson · 2025-10-03 · 2 comments
  2. …a quick way to gather real citations that I could trust, and then drop them into my workflow. Repo: https://github.com/peterdunson/renderscholar I’d love feedback—especially from people who would use this for lit reviews, etc and are…
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    RenderScholar – Scrape real papers from Google Scholar (no hallucinations)
    story by peterdunson · 2025-10-02 · 1 comment