DBLP Search Plugin

Overview

The DBLP Search Plugin allows you to query structured bibliographic data from DBLP in real time. It supports searching for:

Publications – individual papers, journal articles, and conference papers.
Authors – search for researchers and editors, including disambiguation.
Venues – search for publication sources, including journals and conference series.

The plugin returns structured results including titles, authors, venues, years, and URLs.

DBLP provides open access to its search API, so no API key is required to use this plugin.

The DBLP Search Plugin can be installed from the Plugin Marketplace. Ensure you have the plugin installed before using it.

You can use the DBLP plugin in the following application types:

Add a DBLP tool node to your Chatflow or Workflow, then configure the following parameters:

Parameter	Type	Description	Default
`q`	string	Search query string	required
`h`	number	Maximum number of results to return	30
`f`	number	Start index for paginated results	0

You can choose the tool type: publication, author, or venue.

Add the DBLP plugin to your Agent application. Then provide instructions such as:

The plugin will return structured search results with metadata, ready for further processing.

{
  "tool": "dblp_publ_search",
  "q": "Neural Networks",
  "h": 5,
  "f": 0
}

Returns the top 5 publications matching “Neural Networks”.

{
  "tool": "dblp_author_search",
  "q": "Yann LeCun"
}

Returns authors matching “Yann LeCun”.

{
  "tool": "dblp_venue_search",
  "q": "NeurIPS",
  "h": 10
}

Returns top 10 venues matching “NeurIPS”.