ieee-search

IEEE Xplore Basic Search

Search for academic papers on IEEE Xplore using Chrome DevTools MCP.

Important: Determine the IEEE Xplore base URL

Before the first operation, check the current browser page URL to determine which IEEE Xplore domain the user is accessing. Store it as BASE_URL. Common patterns:

• Direct access: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org
• Institutional proxy: URL containing ieeexplore in the hostname (e.g. WebVPN or EZProxy)

Use whatever origin the user's browser is currently on. If no IEEE Xplore page is open, ask the user which URL to use.

Steps

Step 1: Navigate to search results

Use navigate_page to go to:

{BASE_URL}/search/searchresult.jsp?queryText={QUERY}&highlight=true&returnFacets=ALL&returnType=SEARCH&matchPubs=true&rowsPerPage=25&pageNumber=1

Where {QUERY} is the URL-encoded search keywords from $ARGUMENTS.

Important: Always include initScript to prevent bot detection:

initScript: "Object.defineProperty(navigator, 'webdriver', {get: () => undefined})"

Step 2: Check access

After navigation, verify the page loaded correctly:

• If the page shows a captcha or bot detection challenge: tell the user "请在浏览器中完成验证后告知我。" Wait for confirmation.
• If the URL no longer contains ieeexplore, the user may have been redirected to a login page. Tell the user: "页面被重定向，请在浏览器中完成登录或认证后告知我。" Then wait.
• Otherwise, proceed.

Step 3: Extract search results

Use evaluate_script with built-in waiting. Do NOT use wait_for — it returns the full page snapshot which can exceed token limits.

async () => {
  // Wait for results to load (up to 15s)
  for (let i = 0; i < 30; i++) {
    if (document.querySelectorAll('.List-results-items .result-item').length > 0 ||
        document.querySelector('.Dashboard-header span')) break;
    await new Promise(r => setTimeout(r, 500));
  }

  const items = document.querySelectorAll('.List-results-items .result-item');
  const papers = [];

  for (let i = 0; i < items.length; i++) {
    const item = items[i];
    const titleLink = item.querySelector('h3 a[href*="/document/"]');
    const authors = [...item.querySelectorAll('.author a[href*="/author/"]')].map(a => a.textContent.trim());
    const pubLink = item.querySelector('.description a[href*="/xpl/"]');
    const publisherInfo = item.querySelector('.publisher-info-container');
    const infoText = publisherInfo?.textContent?.trim() || '';
    const yearMatch = infoText.match(/Year:\s*(\d{4})/);
    const docNumber = titleLink?.href?.match(/\/document\/(\d+)/)?.[1] || '';
    const abstractSnippet = item.querySelector('.js-displayer-content span')?.textContent?.trim() || '';
    // Cited by: extract from full text content using regex (DOM selector varies across pages)
    const itemText = item.textContent || '';
    // Two formats: "Cited by: 70" (default sort) and "Cited by: Papers (190)" (citation sort)
    const citedByMatch = itemText.match(/Cited by:.*?(\d+)/);
    const citedBy = citedByMatch ? citedByMatch[1] : '';

    papers.push({
      rank: i + 1,
      title: titleLink?.textContent?.trim()?.replace(/<[^>]+>/g, '') || '',
      arnumber: docNumber,
      authors,
      publication: pubLink?.textContent?.trim() || '',
      year: yearMatch ? yearMatch[1] : '',
      info: infoText,
      citedBy,
      abstract: abstractSnippet.substring(0, 200),
    });
  }

  const resultCount = document.querySelector('.Dashboard-header span')?.textContent?.trim() || '';
  const noResults = resultCount.includes('No results') || items.length === 0;
  return { papers, resultCount, noResults };
}