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aiSummary,sectionSummaries
Authorization
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Format: sk_live_... or sk_test_...
In: header
Path Parameters
Paper ID — either arXiv ID (e.g., 1706.03762) or internal UUID
Response Body
application/json
application/json
application/json
curl -X GET "https://sciencestack.ai/api/v1/papers/1706.03762/overview"{
"data": {
"id": "497f6eca-6276-4993-bfeb-53cbbbba6f08",
"title": "string",
"arxivId": "string",
"abstract": "string",
"authors": [
{
"name": "string",
"authorId": "string"
}
],
"published": "2019-08-24T14:15:22Z",
"aiSummary": "string",
"citation": {
"bibtex": "@article{vaswani2017attention,\n title={Attention Is All You Need},\n author={Vaswani, Ashish and Shazeer, Noam and Parmar, Niki and Uszkoreit, Jakob and Jones, Llion and Gomez, Aidan N. and Kaiser, Lukasz and Polosukhin, Illia},\n journal={arXiv preprint arXiv:1706.03762},\n year={2017}\n}\n",
"apa": "Vaswani, A., Shazeer, N., Parmar, N., Uszkoreit, J., Jones, L., Gomez, A. N., Kaiser, L., & Polosukhin, I. (2017). Attention Is All You Need. arXiv preprint arXiv:1706.03762."
},
"toc": [
{
"section": "string",
"nodeId": "string",
"title": "string",
"depth": 0
}
],
"sectionSummaries": [
{
"section": "string",
"nodeId": "string",
"title": "string",
"summary": "string"
}
],
"figures": [
{
"nodeId": "fig:1",
"number": "1",
"caption": "string",
"imageUrls": [
"http://example.com"
]
}
],
"tables": [
{
"nodeId": "string",
"number": "string",
"caption": "string"
}
],
"mathEnvs": [
{
"nodeId": "string",
"type": "string",
"number": "string",
"title": "string"
}
],
"algorithms": [
{
"nodeId": "string",
"number": "string",
"caption": "string"
}
]
},
"_version": "string"
}{
"error": {
"code": "UNAUTHORIZED",
"message": "Invalid API key"
}
}{
"error": {
"code": "PAPER_NOT_FOUND",
"message": "Paper not found: 9999.99999"
}
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