# bughandler/cnki-downloader

知网(CNKI)文献下载工具

Repository: https://github.com/bughandler/cnki-downloader
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/cnki-downloader
License Family: other
Topics: cnki, downloader
Last push: 2025-12-09T03:02:35+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 48/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-02T17:46:02.011165+00:00)
- activity 56, release rhythm 8, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 3766, "days_push": 267, "days_rel": null, "gap_med": null, "n_releases_24m": 0}
- flags: no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1762, forks 428 (observed 2026-08-28T04:05:32.818277+00:00)

## What it is
A small desktop tool for searching and downloading academic literature from CNKI (China National Knowledge Infrastructure). Its backend interface server has failed, so it no longer functions and the project is effectively discontinued.

## Use cases
- download papers from CNKI
- batch download Chinese academic literature
- search CNKI and save PDFs
- get journal articles from 知网
- export thesis references as PDFs

## When to choose
- you need a simple GUI for fetching CNKI papers and the upstream interface is working again
- you want a lightweight alternative to browser-based CNKI downloading

## When to avoid
- you need a working tool today - the API server is dead and downloads no longer work
- you need maintained software with a license and active support
- you need access to non-CNKI academic sources

## Facets
- artifact type: application
- maturity: abandoned
- function: web-scraping, pdf, developer-tools
- domain: education, pdf, crawlers, files
- platform: cross-platform
- tags: cnki, academic-papers, downloader, chinese-academia, discontinued, desktop

## Member repositories
- bughandler/cnki-downloader (main) score 48

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:32.818277+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T03:27:01.563859+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/bughandler/cnki-downloader (fetched 2026-08-28T04:05:32.818277+00:00, sha 7e60173d6949)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.