desearch
A wrapper around sci-hub.se for downloading Research Papers for free.
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
Author
Kumar Ashwin
Email - krahwin00@gmail.com
Blog Post - https://dev.to/krashwin/sci-hub-tw-wrapper-desearch-47ba