Libgenbot is a Bot written in Python to download PDFs from libgen. It is a fork of PyPaperBot, and is inspired by it Please leave feedback and report issues
Use pip to install LibgenBot
pip3 install Libgenbot
For builds with latest changes
git clone https://github.com/suhan-paradkar/Libgenbot.git
pip3 install -r requirements.txt
python3 setup.py install
First, you need to be subscribed into its-pointless repo
pkg up
pkg install wget git
wget https://its-pointless.github.io/setup-pointless-repo.sh
chmod +x setup-pointless-repo.sh
./setup-pointless-repo.sh
Now, you need to install numpy
pkg install numpy
Now, install pandas.... It takes a bit long time... so have a cup of tea
export CFLAGS="-Wno-deprecated-declarations -Wno-unreachable-code"
pip install pandas
Now, install using pip
pip install Libgenbot
For builds with latest changes
git clone https://github.com/suhan-paradkar/Libgenbot.git
pip install -r requirements.txt
python setup.py install
| Arguments | Description | Type |
|---|---|---|
--query |
Query to make on Libgen page | string |
--genre |
select genre: one of 'libgen(Sci-Tech)[1]''Scientific articles[2]' 'Fiction[3]' . Is a must when using libgen | Int |
--scholar-query |
Query to be made on the Google Scholar page | string |
--doi |
DOI of the paper to download (this option uses only SciHub to download) | string |
--doi-file |
File .txt containing the list of paper's DOIs to download | string |
--libgen-pages |
Number or range of Libgen pages to inspect. Contains variable no. of pages | string |
--scholar-pages |
Number or range of Google Scholar pages to inspect. Each page has a maximum of 10 papers | string |
--libgen-results |
Number of papers to download. Useful When --libgen-pages=1 | int |
--scholar-results |
Number of papers to download. Useful When --scholar-pages=1 | int |
--dwn-dir |
Directory path in which to save the result | string |
--min-year |
Minimal publication year of the paper to download | int |
--max-dwn-year |
Maximum number of papers to download sorted by year | int |
--max-dwn-cites |
Maximum number of papers to download sorted by number of citations | int |
--journal-filter |
CSV file path of the journal filter . Only works on Scholar | string |
--restrict |
0:Download only Bibtex - 1:Down load only papers PDF | int |
--scihub-mirror |
Mirror for downloading papers from sci-hub. If not set, it is selected automatically | string |
--proxy |
Use Proxychains. Provide a seperated list of proxies (See below) | string |
-h |
Shows the help | -- |
You can use only one of the arguments in the following groups
--query, --scholar-query --doi-file, and --doi
--max-dwn-year and and max-dwn-cites
One of the arguments --doi, --query, --scholar-query , and --file is mandatory
The arguments --scholar-pages is mandatory when using --scholar-query
The argument --dwn-dir is mandatory.
The argument --genre is mandatory when using --query
The argument --journal-filter require the path of a CSV containing a list of journal name paired with a boolean which indicates whether or not to consider that journal (0: don't consider /1: consider)
The argument --doi-file require the path of a txt file containing the list of paper's DOIs to download organized with one DOI per line.
The argument --proxy must be used at the end of the command. The protocol used and the port must be mentioned.
Libgenbot --query=rheumatoid+arthritis --libgen-pages=1 --libgen-results=20 --genre=1 --dwn-dir=documents/ --proxy http://1.1.1.1:8080 http://8.0.8.0:8024
