Stop manually searching for conferences. Let AI find the perfect venue for your paper.
WikiCFP Scanner is a command-line tool that scrapes WikiCFP for upcoming conferences, extracts information from your research paper (PDF or text), and uses Claude AI to rank conferences by relevance to your work.
- Paper Analysis - Extract title, abstract, and keywords from PDF papers
- Smart Scraping - Async scraping of WikiCFP with rate limiting and caching
- AI-Powered Matching - Claude AI analyzes paper-conference relevance
- CORE Rankings - Integrates CORE conference rankings (A*, A, B, C)
- Submission Details - Extracts submission URLs and formatting requirements
- Multiple Outputs - Table (Rich), JSON, and CSV output formats
- Persistent Cache - Disk-based caching to minimize repeated requests
- Python 3.10+
- uv package manager (recommended)
- Claude CLI installed and configured
# Using pip (recommended)
pip install wikicfp-scanner
# Using uv
uv tool install wikicfp-scanner
# Or from source
pip install git+https://github.com/dipankar/wikicfp-cli# Scan using a PDF
wikicfp scan --pdf my-paper.pdf
# Scan using title and abstract
wikicfp scan --title "My Paper Title" --abstract "Paper abstract text..."
# Specify categories and output format
wikicfp scan --pdf paper.pdf -c "machine learning" -c "deep learning" --output json
# Adjust deadline range
wikicfp scan --pdf paper.pdf --min-deadline-days 14 --max-deadline-days 90| Command | Description |
|---|---|
wikicfp scan |
Scan WikiCFP for matching conferences |
wikicfp list-categories |
List available CS categories |
wikicfp download-core |
Download CORE rankings CSV |
wikicfp clear-cache |
Clear the cache directory |
Full documentation available at: https://dipankar.github.io/wikicfp-cli/
Contributions are welcome! Please see CONTRIBUTING.md for guidelines.
git clone https://github.com/dipankar/wikicfp-cli
cd wikicfp-cli
uv sync --all-extras
uv run ruff check .
uv run pytestThis project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE file for details.
- WikiCFP for conference data
- CORE Rankings for ranking data
- Claude AI for relevance analysis