Sci-Hub’s cache of pirated papers is so big, subscription journals are doomed

Re:Sci-Hub’s cache of pirated papers is so big, subscription... by frgtpsswrdlame on Thursday July 27, 2017 @05:26PM (#14869752)

I wasn't able to figure out a way so I just picked a few at random. Is there an easy way to roll up like a heroku app or something that would check the health of only those torrents? That could be really useful to the libgen guys.

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Re:Sci-Hub’s cache of pirated papers is so big, subscription... by icebraining on Thursday July 27, 2017 @07:31PM (#14870697)

I couldn't find anything, so I ended up making it myself using TorrentSniff.

http://genesis.andreparames.com/

Most of the trackers seem to be down, so it's just getting data from tracker2.wasabii.com, and even that is pretty slow, so it'll take a while to fetch for all 1693 torrents.

I wrote a script that pings the tracker and keeps regenerating a static HTML file, so it'll keep updating itself, though not very fast.

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Re:Sci-Hub’s cache of pirated papers is so big, subscription... by frgtpsswrdlame on Wednesday August 02, 2017 @09:44AM (#14910458)

Just saw this, thanks! Super cool.

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