Setup & Installation
openclaw skills install @jlpjavawayup/baidu-scholar-search
Or with the ClawHub CLI, for registry-managed skill folders outside a full OpenClaw workspace:
npx clawhub install baidu-scholar-search
What This Skill Does
Searches Baidu Scholar for Chinese and English academic literature using keywords. Returns results from journals, conference papers, and dissertations with optional abstracts.
Provides access to Chinese academic literature that most Western search tools miss.
When to use it
- Finding Chinese-language research papers on a topic
- Searching for academic sources across multilingual databases
- Retrieving dissertation abstracts for literature reviews
- Paginating through large sets of scholarly results
- Looking up conference papers by keyword
Example Workflow
Here's how your AI assistant might use this skill in practice.
INPUT
User asks: Find recent papers on machine learning in Chinese
AGENT
- 1Set BAIDU_API_KEY in environment
- 2Call scholar search API with wd='机器学习' and enable_abstract=true
- 3Retrieve paginated results with title, abstract, and paperId fields
- 4Present structured list of matching literature to user
OUTPUT
List of academic papers with titles, abstracts, and paper IDs from Baidu Scholar
Requirements
Accounts, API keys, or tools you or your AI assistant may need to set up while using this skill.
BAIDU_API_KEY environment variable