Download papers from IEEExplore with wget

Question

I am now out of institute, but need to download paper from IEEExplore.

I can ssh to the institute server. I think I should be able to access IEEExplore there, but I don't know how to download.

Suppose I am out of institute, and want to download this paper:

http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?reload=true&arnumber=5738219&abstractAccess=no&userType=

I have tried:

wget http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetails.jsp?reload=true&arnumber=5738219&abstractAccess=no&userType=
-O mypaper.pdf

but mypaper.pdf turns out to be a broken pdf file.

Could anyone give some suggestions?

Answer 1

I found http://techqe.blogspot.com/2009/09/quick-download-ieee-paper.html, which provides the following solution:

1. Identify the "arnumber" for the paper, in the hyperlink you found while browsing. In your example, it's 5738219

2. Enter the following command at your shell:

   wget "http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stampPDF/getPDF.jsp?tp=&isnumber=&arnumber=5738219" -O paper.pdf
   

Your paper will now be saved in "paper.pdf"