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Small suggestion: instead of hardcoding the .se domain, you might want to send a request to Wikidata to get the currently ised domains. That's how similar sci-h

Small suggestion: instead of hardcoding the .se domain, you might want to send a request to Wikidata to get the currently ised domains. That's how similar sci-hub tools do it to stay up-to-date.

rickdeveloper 5y ago
Thanks for the suggestion! I'll add that in a future version.
sigmar 5y ago
I had never heard of wikidata, but might steal this idea for a similar app I have on F-Droid that pulls PDFs from Sci-Hub when a doi link is clicked using android's intent system https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.sigmarelax.doitoscihub/ https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.sigmarelax.doitoscihub/
- tsol 5y ago
  Cool idea. I'm gonna give this a try, thanks for sharing
smasher164 5y ago
Is Wikidata the proper way to get the currently functioning mirror? I was under the impression that you had to get it from Elbakyan's VK or the SciHub Telegram. I've been assuming that the subreddit would update with accurate links, so I've just been scraping it from there: https://github.com/smasher164/search/blob/53ae11b52f158d1986d61e1668fd25df6ba85baf/search#L44 https://github.com/smasher164/search/blob/53ae11b52f158d1986...
- hassancf 5y ago
  I found that source code extremely familiar and was wondering what it was. I saw the shebang and still didn’t understand what the heck roku was. Until I searched it: “Raku is a member of the Perl family of programming languages. Formerly known as Perl 6, it was renamed in October 2019.”
nefitty 5y ago
My god, why did you mention wikidata? SPARQL is the most obscure fucking thing I've ever encountered. I've been sitting here for an hour trying to find how to get the data of a specific page! I guess the rest API will do, ugh. Related discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28277749 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28277749
- nefitty 5y ago
  Ok, I'm not just here to bitch. Here's the code for my implementation of Sci-Hub mirror checking: https://observablehq.com/@iz/sci-hub https://observablehq.com/@iz/sci-hub I made an iOS Shortcut based on the same code. To use it after installing, access it from the iOS Share screen when you're on a relevant site. It will look for preferred mirrors from Wikidata before running. https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/080b9f68c96a4491898b804547ec3c57 https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/080b9f68c96a4491898b804547e... Always review a Shortcut's actions before running it.

Small suggestion: instead of hardcoding the .se domain, you might want to send a request to Wikidata to get the currently ised domains. That's how similar sci-hub tools do it to stay up-to-date.

rickdeveloper 5y ago

Thanks for the suggestion! I'll add that in a future version.

sigmar 5y ago

I had never heard of wikidata, but might steal this idea for a similar app I have on F-Droid that pulls PDFs from Sci-Hub when a doi link is clicked using android's intent system https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.sigmarelax.doitoscihub/ https://f-droid.org/en/packages/com.sigmarelax.doitoscihub/

tsol 5y ago
Cool idea. I'm gonna give this a try, thanks for sharing

smasher164 5y ago

Is Wikidata the proper way to get the currently functioning mirror? I was under the impression that you had to get it from Elbakyan's VK or the SciHub Telegram. I've been assuming that the subreddit would update with accurate links, so I've just been scraping it from there: https://github.com/smasher164/search/blob/53ae11b52f158d1986d61e1668fd25df6ba85baf/search#L44 https://github.com/smasher164/search/blob/53ae11b52f158d1986...

hassancf 5y ago
I found that source code extremely familiar and was wondering what it was. I saw the shebang and still didn’t understand what the heck roku was. Until I searched it: “Raku is a member of the Perl family of programming languages. Formerly known as Perl 6, it was renamed in October 2019.”

nefitty 5y ago

My god, why did you mention wikidata? SPARQL is the most obscure fucking thing I've ever encountered. I've been sitting here for an hour trying to find how to get the data of a specific page! I guess the rest API will do, ugh. Related discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28277749 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28277749

nefitty 5y ago
Ok, I'm not just here to bitch. Here's the code for my implementation of Sci-Hub mirror checking: https://observablehq.com/@iz/sci-hub https://observablehq.com/@iz/sci-hub I made an iOS Shortcut based on the same code. To use it after installing, access it from the iOS Share screen when you're on a relevant site. It will look for preferred mirrors from Wikidata before running. https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/080b9f68c96a4491898b804547ec3c57 https://www.icloud.com/shortcuts/080b9f68c96a4491898b804547e... Always review a Shortcut's actions before running it.