README.md

desearch

A wrapper around sci-hub.se for downloading Research Papers for free.

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This tool is not usable anymore, as there is captcha on the site. Feel Free to download the papers manually from the above mentioned link.

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Installation

If you are a GO user,

go get github.com/krAshwin/desearch

For linux & windows users, they can use by directly downloading the portable executables.

Usage

If you are a linux user, download the executable from linux/desearch and traverse to the directory where the downloaded file is and run with the following command,

./desearch [url]

If you are a windows user, download the executable from windows/desearch.exe and open Command Prompt(cmd) and go to the folder where desearch.exe is and run with the following command,

desearch.exe [url]

To run the code globally,
For Linux: Move the executable to /bin directory and then it can be run globally.

desearch [url]

Output

May spit error if unable to download the file.
Otherwise,

Downloading Research Paper: {filename}
Done

Known url sources

• IEEE
• ACM
• Science Direct
• Springer
• Nature

Author

Kumar Ashwin
Email - krahwin00@gmail.com
Blog Post - https://dev.to/krashwin/sci-hub-tw-wrapper-desearch-47ba