README

SciHub to PDF(Beta)
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Description
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scihub2pdf is a module of
`bibcure <https://github.com/bibcure/bibcure>`__

Downloads pdfs via a DOI number, article title or a bibtex file, using
the database of libgen, Sci-Hub and Arxiv.

Install
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::

    $ sudo python /usr/bin/pip install scihub2pdf

If you want to download files from scihub you will need to get PhantomJS

OSX
~~~

::

    $ npm install -g phantomjs

Linux Using npm
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

::

    $ sudo apt-get install npm
    $ sudo npm install -g phantomjs

Features and how to use
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Given a bibtex file

::

    $ scihub2pdf -i input.bib

Given a DOI number...

::

    $ scihub2pdf 10.1038/s41524-017-0032-0

Given a title...

::

    $ scihub2pdf --title An useful paper

Arxiv...

::

    $ scihub2pdf arxiv:0901.2686
    $ scihub2pdf --title arxiv:Periodic table for topological insulators

Location folder as argument

::

    $ scihub2pdf -i input.bib -l somefoler/

Use libgen instead sci-hub

::

    $ scihub2pdf -i input.bib --uselibgen

Sci-hub:
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-  Stable
-  Annoying CAPTCHA
-  Fast

Libgen
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-  Unstalbe
-  No CAPTCHA
-  Slow

Download from list of items
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Given a text file like

::

    10.1038/s41524-017-0032-0
    10.1063/1.3149495
    .....

download all pdf's

::

    $ scihub2pdf -i dois.txt --txt

Given a text file like

::

    Some Title 1
    Some Title 2
    .....

download all pdf's

::

    $ scihub2pdf -i titles.txt --txt --title

Given a text file like

::

    arXiv:1708.06891
    arXiv:1708.06071
    arXiv:1708.05948
    .....

download all pdf's

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    $ scihub2pdf -i arxiv_ids.txt --txt