Hacky script for quick science fetching.

scitopdf processes anything about a paper: DOI, URL, title, authors, journal... leveraging Crossref, Sci-Hub and Libgen.

Quick start

$ wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/dougy147/scitopdf/refs/heads/master/bin/scitopdf
$ chmod +x ./scitopdf
$ ./scitopdf "paper you are looking for"

Overviw

Flag	Functionality
-l, --list	Download references line by line from a bibliography file
-D, --download-dir	Store papers in a specified directory
-u, --url	Provide Sci-Hub URL manually
-p, --no-auto-open	Turn auto-opening off
-q, --quiet	Quiet mode, no echo except for errors
--ref	Display BibTex references in terminal and copy to clipboard.
--dmenu	Display prompt with dmenu (more support and functions to come)
-w, --wait	Wait X seconds between two requests (for --list mode only)
-b, --break-after	Make a break every X paper search (for --list mode only)
-d, --break-for	Break duration in seconds (for --list mode only)
-h, --help	Print this help menu
man scitopdf	Check the manual for more tweaks

• Example : scitopdf -p "protein measurement with the folin" -q -D "$HOME/science"

Install

From source

$ git clone https://github.com/dougy147/scitopdf
$ cd scitopdf
$ sudo make install

Linux

$ yay -S scitopdf-git       # ArchLinux
$ sudo dnf install scitopdf # ROSA Linux

DISCLAIMER

bla bla bla don't hurt anyone with this tool, including yourself 3;)

Special thanks to contributors

Feel free 😎

If scitopdf has been of any help to you, I'd be glad and thankful !

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