goblog-plugin-scholar

A goblog WebAssembly plugin that adds a Research page (/research, in the nav) listing your publications from Semantic Scholar: title linked to the paper, authors, year, venue and citation count, newest first. Version 2.0.0 replaces the scholar plugin that used to be compiled into goblog.

Install

From your goblog's Admin → Plugins → Browse, search for Scholar Publications and click Install (goblog 0.3.0 or newer; earlier versions still ship a compiled-in scholar plugin whose name collides with this one). Or download plugin.wasm from the latest release into plugins/wasm/scholar.wasm, write plugins/wasm/scholar.json containing {"allowed_hosts":["api.semanticscholar.org"]}, and restart goblog.

Settings

Under Admin → Settings → Scholar Publications:

If you are upgrading from goblog's compiled-in scholar plugin, your existing enabled, semantic_scholar_id, semantic_scholar_api_key and article_limit settings carry over. Google Scholar is no longer supported, so the old source and scholar_id settings are ignored, as are profile_cache and article_cache (the cache now lives in goblog's database).

How it works

The plugin talks to api.semanticscholar.org only (/graph/v1/author/{id}/papers), and goblog's sandbox blocks every other host.

Publications are served from the cache: fetched publications are kept in the plugin store (goblog's plugin_store table) and the Research page always shows what is there, so visitors never wait on the API. An hourly refresh job re-fetches once the cache is older than cache_hours. If Semantic Scholar is unreachable the last cached list stays up and the job simply tries again next hour. The page only fetches for itself when the store is empty (first view after install); if that fetch fails the page says publications are temporarily unavailable and does not retry for ten minutes.

Build it yourself

go test ./...   # unit tests run natively
GOOS=wasip1 GOARCH=wasm go build -buildmode=c-shared -ldflags="-s -w" -o plugin.wasm .

Needs Go 1.25 or newer (go.mod pins the toolchain, so GOTOOLCHAIN=auto fetches it). Check the result with goblog validate-plugin plugin.wasm. Tag a release as vX.Y.Z; the workflow builds and uploads plugin.wasm for you.

License

Apache-2.0.