Documentation¶

The `SciHub` class¶

class pyscihub.pyscihub.SciHub(url, output_path)[source]¶

Bases: object

The SciHub object can be used to download PDFs from SciHub after initialisation.

Initialises the SciHub object with the Sci-Hub url url and writes all PDFs to the output_path folder.

Parameters

url (str) – Sci-Hub URL to use
output_path (Path) – The folder to download all PDFs to

download(queries)[source]¶

Download articles for provided queries

Parameters: queries (list(str)) – List of queries to look up
Raises: ValueError – If argument is not a string or list of strings