# mukulpatnaik/researchgpt

A LLM based research assistant that allows you to have a conversation with a research paper

Repository: https://github.com/mukulpatnaik/researchgpt
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/researchgpt
Homepage: https://www.dara.chat
Language: Python
License: MIT
License Family: permissive
Archived: true
Last push: 2023-11-21T01:54:29+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 10/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 0, release rhythm 35, longevity 93
- inputs: {"age_days": 1309, "days_push": 1017, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_releases, archived
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 3531, forks 315 (observed 2026-08-28T04:08:08.912098+00:00)

## What it is
A FastAPI-based research assistant that lets users have a conversation with any PDF research paper by extracting text, generating embeddings, and querying the OpenAI API with cited sources and page numbers. The repository is no longer actively maintained, with a successor available at chat.portal.so.

## Use cases
- chat with a research paper pdf
- ask questions about an academic paper
- summarize a pdf with an llm
- get cited answers from a document
- self-host a pdf question-answering app

## When to choose
- you want a simple self-hosted RAG app for chatting with PDFs
- you need a minimal FastAPI + OpenAI + Redis reference implementation
- you want answers with source text and page citations

## When to avoid
- you need actively maintained software with bug fixes
- you want a production-ready or scalable document chat system
- you prefer not to depend on the OpenAI API
- you want the newer features available in the successor project

## Facets
- artifact type: application
- maturity: abandoned
- function: rag, llm-inference, pdf, web-framework, chatbot, caching
- domain: artificial-intelligence, large-language-models, pdf
- platform: python, self-hosted
- tags: research-assistant, pdf-chat, openai, fastapi, embeddings, unmaintained, retrieval-augmented-generation, natural-language-processing, web-server

## Member repositories
- mukulpatnaik/researchgpt (main) score 10

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:08:08.912098+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-29T18:35:06.237229+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/mukulpatnaik/researchgpt (fetched 2026-08-28T04:08:08.912098+00:00, sha 98408c975262)
  - homepage: https://www.dara.chat (fetched 2026-08-29T09:28:58.327060+00:00, sha 7f4b331c572a)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.