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

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