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Julio J. 🀲

@jonny talking of which, I just released @scihub , a bot that posts the latest working domains for #SciHub

hachyderm.io/@j3j5/11108732599

18 Sep 2023 at 17:30 | Wall-to-wall | Open on hachyderm.io
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jonny (good kind)

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@scihub
Huh, wonder who runs those mirrors, since they're not on the list??
sci-hub.se/mirrors

18 Sep 2023 at 17:41 | Open on neuromatch.social
Julio J. 🀲

@jonny oh, curious, honestly I followed a bot back in :birdsite: that posted the domains from the WordPress blog, and I always use it to access it, but I didn't realize they weren't "official"

18 Sep 2023 at 17:44 | Open on hachyderm.io
jonny (good kind)

@j3j5
Yeah not as far as I can tell. The mirrors on that site also seem to embed some mystery JavaScript payload from Baidu (that I can't actually get to load) so probably good to stick to the official mirrors. But a bot that checks for outages/changes in those would b good, since they probs will lose the .se one a few more times.

You could do a pretty low-fi scrape of it because they embed the list of mirrors as a series of link rel="alternate" in the header

@j3j5
Yeah not as far as I can tell. The mirrors on that site also seem to embed some mystery JavaScript payload from Baidu (that I can't actually get to load) so probably good to stick to the official mirrors. But a bot that checks for outages/changes in those would b good, since they probs will lose the .se one a few more times.

18 Sep 2023 at 18:05 | Open on neuromatch.social
jonny (good kind)

@j3j5
Counterfeit mirrors, as olde as digital piracy itself

18 Sep 2023 at 18:06 | Open on neuromatch.social
Julio J. 🀲

@jonny I've switched to the "official" mirrors, sadly, I can't check for availability because at least one of them (sci-hub.st) has some sort of DDoS protection on that returns 403 when I do a HEAD/GET with my script.

bots.uy/p/scihub/9451178117890

18 Sep 2023 at 19:17 | Open on hachyderm.io
Julio J. 🀲

@jonny also, the alternate links on the headers seem to be used for the localized pages, not for the mirrors. The mirrors page is still easy to scrape (there's a nice "mirrors" id on the list).

18 Sep 2023 at 19:20 | Open on hachyderm.io
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