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How can Sci-Hub and LibGen be mirrored? When I last looked into it, it was closed source.
by hagibborim 6y ago
How can Sci-Hub and LibGen be mirrored? When I last looked into it, it was closed source.
- notriddle 6y agoSci-Hub is closed source. LibGen is open source, but published as code drops rather than using an actual VCS. Download the web app from http://gen.lib.rus.ec/code/libgen_legacy_catalog_20190831.rar http://gen.lib.rus.ec/code/libgen_legacy_catalog_20190831.ra... Download the database from http://gen.lib.rus.ec/dbdumps/ http://gen.lib.rus.ec/dbdumps/
- j-james 6y agoSci-Hub is also mirrored to Library Genesis.
- kaba0 6y agoThe important part is not the source code but the content. As for libgen, they provide torrents per 1000 (I think) books, so maybe downloading and seeding those could be helpful? (But I heard they recently created IPFS mirros as well)
- hagibborim 6y agoBoth are important here. When I was looking into it, the data was useless without the source code. The names are obfuscated and impossible to query without the application source plus the map of file names to document metadata. I would be unable to mirror LibGen and Sci-Hub with what is currently available. I would be ECSTATIC to be proven wrong.
- kaba0 6y agoOh yeah, you are right. But in the case of libgen, other’s mentioned it is open source.