This program can be used to get educational articles/papers from internet with an input of set DOI links in a text file. The retrieved data can be downloaded in a specified folder. The downloaded files are saved in the selected folder and their details are saved in an Excel file. This program uses Beautifulsoup to get response from Sci-Hub site.
This program allows the user to get educational articles/papers from internet and download the pdf files to a mentioned folder.
The input is given in the form of a text file containing DOI links (one link per line). The output details are recorded in an Excel file.
The following details are retrieved and recorded in the process:
- DOI
- Title
- Author
- Publisher
- Year
- URL
- File Name
- File Path
- Citation
- Collect the DOIs of the articles you want to obtain and list them one DOI per line in a Text file (.txt)*.
- Now, initiate the program. Provide the location or the name of the text file that contains the DOIs.
- Select a set of DOI links to process or select all depending upon your need. Larger number of
DOIs (i.e. >10) might take longer. So, it is ideal to split and process. - Provide a folder name where the pdf files can be downloaded (Currently a subfolder in the working directory).
- Once the process is completed, the retrieved DOIs will be listed after downloading the same
to the given location. - The details of the downloaded files are stored in an Excel file.
If you are running the program for the first time, run the prereqs.py file before executing the program, it will install all the necessary modules.