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Sci Hub Injector

313 points by sixtyfourbits 5y ago

upbeat_general 5y ago
There’s also this [0] userscript that does essentially the same thing but doesn’t need a separate extension assuming you already use a userscript manager. It also supports far more domains from the looks of it. 0: https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/370246-sci-hub-button https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/370246-sci-hub-button
- SimpleMinds 5y ago
  Does this script work for you? I installed in FF and tried on 3 sample links and none of them produced the extra link :/ Icon in Greasemonkey shows that scripts recognized URL and was running on each site
  - upbeat_general 5y ago
    Yeah I've been using it for at least 6 months and it's been great. Running on Chrome w/Violetmonkey. As an example I get the icon in the top left of the page for this random IEEE paper: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/6025669 https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/6025669
- LightHugger 5y ago
  Thanks, was hoping there would be exactly this rather than messing with a new extension.
Reventlov 5y ago
My main problem with sci-hub right now is that it's stopped adding new content to the website since like 1 or 2 years. Which means if you want to have an up-to-date state of the art, you can't use sci-hub. I personally use the bookmarklet, i'm way more inclined towards this than some random browser extension.
- asddubs 5y ago
  I thought they started publishing new papers again?
  - geoah 5y ago
    I think they just added a couple million new journals as a one-off.
- sixtyfourbits 5y ago
  The reason why they've stopped temporarily is due to an ongoing court case in India initiated by Elsevier. I'm not sure this is the best article on the case but basically sci-hub agreed not to post any new articles for a period of time (which has been extended) while the case is ongoing: https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/no-new-articles-on-sci-hub-libgen-till-jan-6-over-copyright-infringement-delhi-hc/story-3j8he06wFMfmoARTpOGoKO.html https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/no-new-articles-on... They did release a bulk issue of 2.7 million articles a few months ago (as part of the torrent collection available from libgen), but nothing new since then.
- epgui 5y ago
  I feel this pain too, it is a tragedy. :(
rickdeveloper 5y ago
Author here. Thanks for submitting this project! I made this because I thought it would be funny if publisher websites had SciHub links that look like they belong on the website [0]. I didn't know about the bookmarklet when I started this. Maybe I should have used that instead. Oh well. I'm currently waiting for Mozilla to accept this into the add on store. If that passes, I will submit it to Chrome as well. [0] https://imgur.com/a/GP7rm43 https://imgur.com/a/GP7rm43
- fnord77 5y ago
  it is great this is so subtle. I like this better than having context menu or some other hidden access link
vehemenz 5y ago
I have access to most of the good journals through my institution, but this is more convenient than the typical process, which involves logging in to a proxy and going through one or more gateway sites to find the actual PDF download.
Debug_Overload 5y ago
Did this get rejected from the Chrome Store? Would've been more convenient.
- rickdeveloper 5y ago
  Author here! It’s currently in review for Firefox and if that passes I’ll submit it to chrome as well.
dbcooper 5y ago
You can also use a one line JS bookmarklet on the article page, such as the following: javascript:(function(){window.location = 'http:// http://' + window.location.hostname + '.sci-hub.st' + window.location.pathname;})();
- cblconfederate 5y ago
  Another one that works: javascript:window.location='http://sci-hub.st/'+window.location (scihub detects most academic websites)
  - lordgrenville 5y ago
    Ooh, that's a lot simpler than my attempt to extract the DOI via regex (which is anyway not 100% possible because of the how flexible the DOI spec is...) javascript:location.href = 'https://sci-hub.se/' + document.getElementsByTagName('html')[0].innerHTML.match(/10\.\d{4,9}\/[-._;()\/:A-Z0-9]+/i)[0]
stared 5y ago
AutHotKey and opening SciHub links on Windows: https://www.hillelwayne.com/post/ahk/ https://www.hillelwayne.com/post/ahk/
ImaCake 5y ago
This post and the four (4) comments suggesting alternate methods to do this are a pretty good indicator that pirating papers is still by far the easier method than going through official channels. I think it would be marginally quicker for me to access a paper legally if I was on my uni's campus. But I am WFH from the other side of the country and would need to log into the VPN. Sci-hub with one of these solutions would be much quicker!
- simsla 5y ago
  There's also cost. My company gives me access to a few journals, but at home I have no such thing. $20 is ridiculous for a paper, given that (a) the authors rarely see anything of this money, and (b) you often need to skim 10 papers before you find the 1 that's relevant. Luckily, many papers in my research domain (compsci/ML) are open access. 90% is either on arxiv or Google Scholar knows a pdf URL. For the rest, scihub is a lifesaver.
  - sampo 5y ago
    > the authors rarely see anything of this money The authors never see anything of that money. Scientific journals do not pay for the authors of the published research papers.
    - epgui 5y ago
      Indeed, and even worse: authors pay scientific journals thousands of dollars in publishing fees per article. You want your article to be open access? No problem, that'll be thousands more dollars.
  - PeterisP 5y ago
    > the authors rarely see anything of this money IMHO it's not rarely but never, I'm not aware of any plausible scenario where any author would ever get a single cent of that payment.
danaos 5y ago
A simple bookmarklet is more than enough for me...
hobofan 5y ago
Small suggestion: instead of hardcoding the .se domain, you might want to send a request to Wikidata to get the currently ised domains. That's how similar sci-hub tools do it to stay up-to-date.
- sigmar 5y ago
  I had never heard of wikidata, but might steal this idea for a similar app I have on F-Droid that pulls PDFs from Sci-Hub when a doi link is clicked using android's intent system https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.sigmarelax.doitoscihub/ https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.sigmarelax.doitoscihub/
  - tsol 5y ago
    Cool idea. I'm gonna give this a try, thanks for sharing
- smasher164 5y ago
  Is Wikidata the proper way to get the currently functioning mirror? I was under the impression that you had to get it from Elbakyan's VK or the SciHub Telegram. I've been assuming that the subreddit would update with accurate links, so I've just been scraping it from there: https://github.com/smasher164/search/blob/53ae11b52f158d1986d61e1668fd25df6ba85baf/search#L44 https://github.com/smasher164/search/blob/53ae11b52f158d1986...
  - hassancf 5y ago
    I found that source code extremely familiar and was wondering what it was. I saw the shebang and still didn’t understand what the heck roku was. Until I searched it: “Raku is a member of the Perl family of programming languages. Formerly known as Perl 6, it was renamed in October 2019.”
- rickdeveloper 5y ago
  Thanks for the suggestion! I'll add that in a future version.
- 5y ago
hirenj 5y ago
One of the contributions being solicited on the page is to get DOIs for the given webpage. Right now, it has a few methods to grab DOIs for specific sites. I've had a lot of success running Zotero's translation server for my own bibliographic needs, but I would really love if I didn't have to host it on a server somewhere (and could actually do that part in a browser engine I depend on to download PDFs anyway). Has anyone here figured out how to wrap the translation server brains (i.e., the recipes for each URL) into a simple library?
- throwanem 5y ago
  Looks like the Zotero devs have already done that [1]. You can probably just vendor the repo in a browser extension, I'd think. [1] https://github.com/zotero/translators https://github.com/zotero/translators
PentelicoMarble 5y ago
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Iv 5y ago
The fact that Sci-hub is still illegal is an indictment of the legislative process.
NmAmDa 5y ago
For people who are using zotro, this extension will be great. https://github.com/ethanwillis/zotero-scihub https://github.com/ethanwillis/zotero-scihub
fnord77 5y ago
wow, nice time-saver.
bmacho 5y ago
BTW did you know that Firefox supports keywords for bookmarks OOTB? You can set up a keyword e.g. "shb" for (code from above) javascript:window.location='http://sci-hub.se/'+window.location and you can run it writing "shb" in the address bar. No need for bookmarklets. Or how do y'all use boorkmarklets? E.g. on chrome? Is your boorkmark bar always visible?
- krabat 5y ago
  Being green here means I must ask (ask me about poetry!): What do I actually write in the address bar?
  - bmacho 5y ago
    In firefox, 1. Create a temporary bookmark (e.g. by pressing ctrl + D, or clicking or the star in the address bar) 2. Open your bookmarks (e.g open the bookmark bar, or press ctrl + B) 3. Right click on the bookmark, and choose "edit bookmark" (or right click, then press "i") 4. Fill the "URL" field with javascript:window.location='http://sci-hub.se/'+window.location 5. Fill the "keyword" field with "shb" (or whatever you want) That's it, whenever you write "shb" in the address bar on a page and hit ENTER, it will navigate you to http://sci-hub.se/ + window.location .
stereoradonc 5y ago
Works like a charm! Thanks!
drannex 5y ago
I use something similar with tampermonkey that detects on hundreds of websites and autoinjects the scihub logo and link into any page, including search results. https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/370246-sci-hub-button https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/370246-sci-hub-button
krabat 5y ago
gone already

313 points by sixtyfourbits 5y ago

There’s also this [0] userscript that does essentially the same thing but doesn’t need a separate extension assuming you already use a userscript manager. It also supports far more domains from the looks of it. 0: https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/370246-sci-hub-button https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/370246-sci-hub-button

SimpleMinds 5y ago
Does this script work for you? I installed in FF and tried on 3 sample links and none of them produced the extra link :/ Icon in Greasemonkey shows that scripts recognized URL and was running on each site
- upbeat_general 5y ago
  Yeah I've been using it for at least 6 months and it's been great. Running on Chrome w/Violetmonkey. As an example I get the icon in the top left of the page for this random IEEE paper: https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/6025669 https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/6025669
LightHugger 5y ago
Thanks, was hoping there would be exactly this rather than messing with a new extension.

Reventlov 5y ago

My main problem with sci-hub right now is that it's stopped adding new content to the website since like 1 or 2 years. Which means if you want to have an up-to-date state of the art, you can't use sci-hub. I personally use the bookmarklet, i'm way more inclined towards this than some random browser extension.

asddubs 5y ago
I thought they started publishing new papers again?
- geoah 5y ago
  I think they just added a couple million new journals as a one-off.
sixtyfourbits 5y ago
The reason why they've stopped temporarily is due to an ongoing court case in India initiated by Elsevier. I'm not sure this is the best article on the case but basically sci-hub agreed not to post any new articles for a period of time (which has been extended) while the case is ongoing: https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/no-new-articles-on-sci-hub-libgen-till-jan-6-over-copyright-infringement-delhi-hc/story-3j8he06wFMfmoARTpOGoKO.html https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/no-new-articles-on... They did release a bulk issue of 2.7 million articles a few months ago (as part of the torrent collection available from libgen), but nothing new since then.
epgui 5y ago
I feel this pain too, it is a tragedy. :(

rickdeveloper 5y ago

Author here. Thanks for submitting this project! I made this because I thought it would be funny if publisher websites had SciHub links that look like they belong on the website [0]. I didn't know about the bookmarklet when I started this. Maybe I should have used that instead. Oh well. I'm currently waiting for Mozilla to accept this into the add on store. If that passes, I will submit it to Chrome as well. [0] https://imgur.com/a/GP7rm43 https://imgur.com/a/GP7rm43

fnord77 5y ago
it is great this is so subtle. I like this better than having context menu or some other hidden access link

vehemenz 5y ago

I have access to most of the good journals through my institution, but this is more convenient than the typical process, which involves logging in to a proxy and going through one or more gateway sites to find the actual PDF download.

Debug_Overload 5y ago

Did this get rejected from the Chrome Store? Would've been more convenient.

rickdeveloper 5y ago
Author here! It’s currently in review for Firefox and if that passes I’ll submit it to chrome as well.

dbcooper 5y ago

You can also use a one line JS bookmarklet on the article page, such as the following: javascript:(function(){window.location = 'http:// http://' + window.location.hostname + '.sci-hub.st' + window.location.pathname;})();

cblconfederate 5y ago
Another one that works: javascript:window.location='http://sci-hub.st/'+window.location (scihub detects most academic websites)
- lordgrenville 5y ago
  Ooh, that's a lot simpler than my attempt to extract the DOI via regex (which is anyway not 100% possible because of the how flexible the DOI spec is...) javascript:location.href = 'https://sci-hub.se/' + document.getElementsByTagName('html')[0].innerHTML.match(/10\.\d{4,9}\/[-._;()\/:A-Z0-9]+/i)[0]

stared 5y ago

AutHotKey and opening SciHub links on Windows: https://www.hillelwayne.com/post/ahk/ https://www.hillelwayne.com/post/ahk/

ImaCake 5y ago

This post and the four (4) comments suggesting alternate methods to do this are a pretty good indicator that pirating papers is still by far the easier method than going through official channels. I think it would be marginally quicker for me to access a paper legally if I was on my uni's campus. But I am WFH from the other side of the country and would need to log into the VPN. Sci-hub with one of these solutions would be much quicker!

simsla 5y ago
There's also cost. My company gives me access to a few journals, but at home I have no such thing. $20 is ridiculous for a paper, given that (a) the authors rarely see anything of this money, and (b) you often need to skim 10 papers before you find the 1 that's relevant. Luckily, many papers in my research domain (compsci/ML) are open access. 90% is either on arxiv or Google Scholar knows a pdf URL. For the rest, scihub is a lifesaver.
- sampo 5y ago
  > the authors rarely see anything of this money The authors never see anything of that money. Scientific journals do not pay for the authors of the published research papers.
  - epgui 5y ago
    Indeed, and even worse: authors pay scientific journals thousands of dollars in publishing fees per article. You want your article to be open access? No problem, that'll be thousands more dollars.
- PeterisP 5y ago
  > the authors rarely see anything of this money IMHO it's not rarely but never, I'm not aware of any plausible scenario where any author would ever get a single cent of that payment.

danaos 5y ago

A simple bookmarklet is more than enough for me...

hobofan 5y ago

Small suggestion: instead of hardcoding the .se domain, you might want to send a request to Wikidata to get the currently ised domains. That's how similar sci-hub tools do it to stay up-to-date.

sigmar 5y ago
I had never heard of wikidata, but might steal this idea for a similar app I have on F-Droid that pulls PDFs from Sci-Hub when a doi link is clicked using android's intent system https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.sigmarelax.doitoscihub/ https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.sigmarelax.doitoscihub/
- tsol 5y ago
  Cool idea. I'm gonna give this a try, thanks for sharing
smasher164 5y ago
Is Wikidata the proper way to get the currently functioning mirror? I was under the impression that you had to get it from Elbakyan's VK or the SciHub Telegram. I've been assuming that the subreddit would update with accurate links, so I've just been scraping it from there: https://github.com/smasher164/search/blob/53ae11b52f158d1986d61e1668fd25df6ba85baf/search#L44 https://github.com/smasher164/search/blob/53ae11b52f158d1986...
- hassancf 5y ago
  I found that source code extremely familiar and was wondering what it was. I saw the shebang and still didn’t understand what the heck roku was. Until I searched it: “Raku is a member of the Perl family of programming languages. Formerly known as Perl 6, it was renamed in October 2019.”
rickdeveloper 5y ago
Thanks for the suggestion! I'll add that in a future version.
5y ago

hirenj 5y ago

One of the contributions being solicited on the page is to get DOIs for the given webpage. Right now, it has a few methods to grab DOIs for specific sites. I've had a lot of success running Zotero's translation server for my own bibliographic needs, but I would really love if I didn't have to host it on a server somewhere (and could actually do that part in a browser engine I depend on to download PDFs anyway). Has anyone here figured out how to wrap the translation server brains (i.e., the recipes for each URL) into a simple library?

throwanem 5y ago
Looks like the Zotero devs have already done that [1]. You can probably just vendor the repo in a browser extension, I'd think. [1] https://github.com/zotero/translators https://github.com/zotero/translators

PentelicoMarble 5y ago

If you like this, you may also enjoy PaperPanda: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/paperpanda/ggjlkinaanncojaippgbndimlhcdlohf https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/paperpanda/ggjlkin...

Iv 5y ago

The fact that Sci-hub is still illegal is an indictment of the legislative process.

NmAmDa 5y ago

For people who are using zotro, this extension will be great. https://github.com/ethanwillis/zotero-scihub https://github.com/ethanwillis/zotero-scihub

fnord77 5y ago

wow, nice time-saver.

bmacho 5y ago

BTW did you know that Firefox supports keywords for bookmarks OOTB? You can set up a keyword e.g. "shb" for (code from above) javascript:window.location='http://sci-hub.se/'+window.location and you can run it writing "shb" in the address bar. No need for bookmarklets. Or how do y'all use boorkmarklets? E.g. on chrome? Is your boorkmark bar always visible?

krabat 5y ago
Being green here means I must ask (ask me about poetry!): What do I actually write in the address bar?
- bmacho 5y ago
  In firefox, 1. Create a temporary bookmark (e.g. by pressing ctrl + D, or clicking or the star in the address bar) 2. Open your bookmarks (e.g open the bookmark bar, or press ctrl + B) 3. Right click on the bookmark, and choose "edit bookmark" (or right click, then press "i") 4. Fill the "URL" field with javascript:window.location='http://sci-hub.se/'+window.location 5. Fill the "keyword" field with "shb" (or whatever you want) That's it, whenever you write "shb" in the address bar on a page and hit ENTER, it will navigate you to http://sci-hub.se/ + window.location .

stereoradonc 5y ago

Works like a charm! Thanks!

drannex 5y ago

I use something similar with tampermonkey that detects on hundreds of websites and autoinjects the scihub logo and link into any page, including search results. https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/370246-sci-hub-button https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/370246-sci-hub-button

krabat 5y ago

gone already