ScholarFlow: Automating the Brutal Academic Cold-Email Grind (100% Client-Side)

This is a submission for the Hacktoberfest Open-Source AI Challenge: Week 3 (Slow and Steady) .

🦥 The Prompt: Channeling Our Inner Sloth

This week's challenge celebrates International Sloth Day with a clear directive: build something that rewards laziness by automating a task you genuinely dread.

If you have ever been an undergraduate or postgraduate student looking for a winter or summer research internship, you already know the single most demoralizing, high-friction chore in academia:

Cold emailing university professors.

The manual process is a slow nightmare:

Endless Department Hunting: Spending 30+ hours clicking through archaic, broken departmental webpages across dozens of IITs, NITs, and IIITs just to find who is actually researching your subfield.

The 3-Hour Email Agony: Either sending a generic "Respected Sir" template that gets deleted in 3 seconds, or spending 2 exhausting hours parsing a single research…