# pldb

> Titles and abstracts of programming languages research papers from POPL, PLDI, ICFP, OOPSLA and other PL venues, 1973 to today. Read-only, no auth.

## Search

GET https://pldb.kirancodes.me/api/search?q=<text>&venue=<ids>&from=<year>&to=<year>&awards=true&sort=relevance|newest|oldest&limit=<=100&offset=<n>

Query syntax: words are ANDed and stemmed; "exact phrase"; -exclude; author:Name, title:word, abstract:word.
Each result has key, title, authors, venue, year, abstract, awards, doi, url (publisher), opentoc (free full text), page.

## One paper

GET https://pldb.kirancodes.me/api/paper/<dblp key>   e.g. /api/paper/conf/popl/Reynolds02
GET https://pldb.kirancodes.me/api/doi/<doi>

## MCP

Streamable HTTP MCP server at https://pldb.kirancodes.me/mcp with tools search_papers, get_paper, list_venues.

## Other

- OpenAPI: https://pldb.kirancodes.me/openapi.json
- Bulk dataset (JSON lines, gzip): https://pldb.kirancodes.me/data/papers.jsonl.gz
- Please keep to a few requests per second.

## Venues

- popl (POPL): 2199 papers, 1973-2026
- pldi (PLDI): 1971 papers, 1979-2026
- icfp (ICFP): 1066 papers, 1996-2026
- oopsla (OOPSLA): 2246 papers, 1986-2026
- ecoop (ECOOP): 1096 papers, 1987-2026
- esop (ESOP): 976 papers, 1986-2026
- cc (CC): 673 papers, 1988-2026
- cgo (CGO): 736 papers, 2003-2026
- ppopp (PPoPP): 1184 papers, 1990-2026
- sas (SAS): 783 papers, 1994-2025
- cav (CAV): 2069 papers, 1990-2026
- tacas (TACAS): 1553 papers, 1995-2026
- vmcai (VMCAI): 642 papers, 2002-2026
- cpp (CPP): 354 papers, 2011-2026
- aplas (APLAS): 613 papers, 2000-2025
- ismm (ISMM): 350 papers, 1992-2026
- gpce (GPCE): 465 papers, 2002-2026
- sle (SLE): 395 papers, 2008-2026
- onward (Onward!): 252 papers, 2011-2025
- haskell (Haskell): 294 papers, 2002-2026
- dls (DLS): 161 papers, 2005-2023
- hopl (HOPL): 125 papers, 1978-2020
- toplas (TOPLAS): 1205 papers, 1979-2026
- jfp (JFP): 916 papers, 1991-2026