zaytoun/scihub.py
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Python API and command-line tool for Sci-Hub observed · 2026-10-04
Health v2 · maintenance only
32/100
- Activity 0
- Release rhythm 35
- Longevity 100
Flags: no_releases
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-10-21. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: n/a
- age_days: 3867
- days_rel: n/a
- days_push: 1790
- n_releases_24m: 0
Adoption not part of the score
1069 stars · 237 forks observed · 2026-10-04
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded
An unofficial Python API and command-line tool for Sci-Hub that can search Google Scholar and download academic papers by DOI, PMID, or URL. It can be imported as a library or used directly from the terminal.
Use cases
- download papers from sci-hub by doi
- bulk download a list of academic articles from a file
- search google scholar and download results
- fetch paper pdfs programmatically in python
- command line tool to grab research papers
When to choose
- you need to programmatically or from the CLI download papers via Sci-Hub
- you want to batch-download articles from a list of identifiers
- you want a simple Python library wrapping Sci-Hub and Google Scholar search
When to avoid
- you need a maintained tool - the last release was 2021 and Sci-Hub domains/captchas frequently break it
- you need legal open-access-only retrieval (use Unpaywall or Semantic Scholar instead)
- captcha handling is required for your workflow
Facets
library · maturity maintenance
http-client web-scraping cli pdf developer-tools education python cli cross-platform sci-hub academic-papers google-scholar paper-downloader open-access command-line search
1 source
- readme: https://github.com/zaytoun/scihub.py · fetched 2026-10-04 · efe9bf4d7ac9
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| zaytoun/scihub.py | main | 32 |
For agents
markdown · JSON · MCP: product_card(name="zaytoun/scihub.py")
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