API

Everything on the site is available as JSON, without a key. Please keep to a few requests a second; bursts beyond that get HTTP 429.

/openapi.json: OpenAPI 3.1 description.
/llms.txt: a plain-text guide for language models.
/mcp: a Model Context Protocol server (streamable HTTP) with search_papers, get_paper and list_venues tools.

Search

GET /api/search?q=effect+handlers&venue=popl,icfp&from=2015&sort=newest&limit=10

Parameter	Meaning
`q`	Search text, same syntax as the site (phrases, `author:`, `title:`, `-word`). Optional.
`venue`	Venue ids, comma-separated or repeated. See `/api/venues`.
`tier`	`1` for POPL/PLDI/ICFP/OOPSLA, `2` for the rest.
`from`, `to`, `year`	Year bounds, inclusive.
`sort`	`relevance` (default with a query), `newest`, `oldest`.
`limit`, `offset`	Paging. `limit` ≤ 100, `offset` ≤ 10,000.
`abstracts`	`false` to omit full abstracts (snippets remain).

GET /api/paper/conf/popl/Reynolds02      (dblp key)
GET /api/doi/10.1145/3009837.3009869      (by DOI)
GET /api/venues
GET /api/venue/icfp/2024

Add to Claude Code with claude mcp add --transport http pldb https://pldb.kirancodes.me/mcp, or in a client config:

{ "mcpServers": { "pldb": { "type": "http", "url": "https://pldb.kirancodes.me/mcp" } } }

The whole dataset is one file: /data/papers.jsonl.gz (JSON lines, gzip).