Download papers from IEEExplore with wget

Question

I am now out of institute, but need to download paper from IEEExplore.

I can ssh to the institute server. I think I should be able to access IEEExplore there, but I don't know how to download.

Suppose I am out of institute, and want to download this paper:

http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?reload=true&arnumber=5738219&abstractAccess=no&userType=

I have tried:

wget http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?reload=true&arnumber=5738219&abstractAccess=no&userType=
-O mypaper.pdf

but mypaper.pdf turns out to be a broken pdf file.

Could anyone give some suggestions?

Constantina

just to complete the solution. step1: ssh into the server, step2: use wget to download the paper, step3: use scp to copy the paper from the remote server to the local disk. – Constantina

Answer 1

I found http://techqe.blogspot.com/2009/09/quick-download-ieee-paper.html, which provides the following solution:

1. Identify the "arnumber" for the paper, in the hyperlink you found while browsing. In your example, it's 5738219

2. Enter the following command at your shell:

   wget "http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stampPDF/getPDF.jsp?tp=&isnumber=&arnumber=5738219" -O paper.pdf
   

Your paper will now be saved in "paper.pdf"

Treenware

It seems not working any more, the command line returns an html page instead of a pdf. – Joeannjoed

tested - still works as of the date of this comment. – Discophile

Answer 2

You can use your institute server as a socks proxy and download as usual using your favourite method.

ssh -D <portNumber> username@serverip

Now the socks proxy has been setup on localhost:portNumber. You can apply the proxy system wide based on your operating system and download as usual.

Coelho