A simple tool to download arXiv papers via CLI.

Status: Occasionally maintained

Type: Personal project

Development year(s): 2018+

Author(s): ShadowTemplate

Notes: This tool parses the source code of arXiv pages and may thus suddenly break if changes are performed on its front end.

The script is ready to be used and no configuration is required. An arXiv paper can be downloaded by its URL (typically https://arxiv.org/abs/PAPER_ID), e.g.:

$ python arxiv.py -p https://arxiv.org/abs/1709.07020

The output should be a nicely formatted PDF with title "2017 - The arXiv of the future will not look like the arXiv - l. Pepe, M. Cantiello, J. Nicholson.pdf".

Clone the repository and install the required Python dependencies:

$ git clone https://github.com/ShadowTemplate/arxiv-downloader.git
$ cd arxiv-downloader/
$ pip install --user -r requirements.txt

• Python 3.6 - Programming language
• Beautiful Soup - Web page scraping

Any contribution is welcome. Feel free to open issues or submit pull requests.

This project is licensed under the GNU GPLv3 license. Please refer to the LICENSE.md file for details.

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