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Connected Papers

A web tool that takes one paper and draws a graph of related papers grouped by similarity, so you can see earlier and later work in a field.

Starting from a single paper you get a map of its neighbourhood, which quickly shows the key works you missed.

APICommercial: conditions

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For your project

Official API
Official API default: 5 builds per minute
“The official python client for the connected papers API.” github.com/ConnectedPapers/connectedpapers-py
Key
Needed
“Contact us at `hello@connectedpapers.com` to get an early-access access token.” github.com/ConnectedPapers/connectedpapers-py
Formats
JSON
Data download
Not stated
License
Site terms (paid Business plan for commercial use); Python client MIT Use of the web tool; the client library code is MIT
Commercial use
Commercial use with conditions
“for individuals and organizations who use Connected Papers in a commercial context.” connectedpapers.substack.com/p/announcing-premium...
Credit
Not stated
Embedding
Embedding unclear
Using the website
Free tier
“will be limited to 5 graphs per month” connectedpapers.substack.com/p/announcing-premium...

Read on Connected Papers's own pages on Oct 23, 2026 · license or terms · API docs. Check the license page before you ship.

For your agent

  • Official API is early-access only: token by e-mail to the maker, official Python SDK `connectedpapers-py` (MIT), papers keyed by Semantic Scholar SHA ids, default 5 graph builds per minute; price not published; no MCP server.
  • Do not scrape the web app; use the API only with a token from the maker
  • Commercial use of the web tool falls under the paid Business plan

Paste into your agent: Read https://agentgid.com/resources/connected-papers/agent.md before using Connected Papers.

What you can build

  • A literature-review helper that, with an API token, fetches the graph for each seed paper and merges them
  • A 'related work' panel that links a paper page to its Connected Papers graph

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