Every scraping post I write lately is about working around something: bot walls, consent screens, keys that require a developer account. This one is different. arXiv runs one of the last genuinely open APIs on the research web, and it is the right way to keep up with the ~800 AI papers that land there every week.

The whole API is one endpoint

GET https://export.arxiv.org/api/query

?search_query=(all:"multi-agent") AND (cat:cs.AI)

&sortBy=submittedDate&sortOrder=descending