Get a paper’s PDF from its DOI or title.
literature retrieval
Fetches a paper’s PDF from its DOI or title using a prioritized chain of sources.
When to use it
Use when the user wants to obtain one or more papers from identifiers, titles, or citations.
Give it a DOI, title, or batch file; it downloads matching PDFs into an output directory.
This skill
Sci-Hub mirrors
Downloads from Sci-Hub mirrors
publisher websites
Downloads from publisher websites
Unpaywall API
Queries the Unpaywall API
Semantic Scholar API
Queries Semantic Scholar
Requires a python3 interpreter.
The cloakbrowser package enables the optional Cloudflare-blocked PDF fallback.
A display is required only for the optional headed CloakBrowser mode.
Institutional subscription access enables publisher-authorized PDF retrieval through the institution’s IP range or session cookies.