Libgenbot

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

Installation

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

Installation in termux

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

Usage

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	--

Note

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.

Usage of Proxy

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