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ozshikh
ozshikh

Reputation: 11

Requests from Scopus API is only writing the first page of the PDF

I am trying to download the full text PDF versions from the Elsevier API. I am able to download the whole paper in XML, JSON and plain text form. So, the API key is working fine. However, I am not able to download the full text in PDF form. When I try to change the header to accept the PDF files, it only writes the first page of the article

I tried on a lot of different DOI's but all of them return the first page of the article.

This is the request command that I am using to access the paper

import requests
r = requests.get('http://api.elsevier.com/content/article/doi/10.1016/0038-1098(87)90044-5?httpAccept=application/pdf', headers=headers)

And I am writing using the following code

with open('test.pdf','wb') as f:
    f.write(r.content)

There is no error but the test.pdf is only the first page of the article.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 1529

Answers (1)

Elsevier Developers
Elsevier Developers

Reputation: 106

By default, the article retrieval API (https://dev.elsevier.com/documentation/ArticleRetrievalAPI.wadl) allows full-text retrieval of articles in XML or JSON format, not in PDF format (except for open access content, where full text is available in all formats). For non-OA content, only the first page of the PDF is available by default.

Upvotes: 3

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