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I wonder whether it is possible to bulk download all papers stored in Sci-Hub.

I am aware of the questions:

but they focus on arXiv.

Cross-posted question on Open Data (not encouraged by Stack Exchange policy): Bulk download Sci-Hub papers

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    @DavidRicherby So how about the two arXiv questions? Why didn't you vote to close them, since they are the same question but for another website?
    – Franck Dernoncourt
    Commented Feb 13, 2016 at 21:56
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    @jakebeal Sci-hub is much larger than arXiv in terms of number of papers. Also, Sci-hub is over 4 year-old. As for the legal aspect, it's up to the court to decide, and that shouldn't impact whether the question gets closed anyway.
    – Franck Dernoncourt
    Commented Feb 13, 2016 at 22:09
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    @DavidRicherby Sure but I clearly linked them in the question.
    – Franck Dernoncourt
    Commented Feb 13, 2016 at 23:10
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    @tomasz As far as I know, libgen is holding a copy of every paper that sci-hub has ever got their hands on.
    – svavil
    Commented Feb 14, 2016 at 11:39
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    You need to ask how to download libgen, not sci-hub: that's the library where downloaded papers are stored. Libgen offers to download its database dump (libgen.io/dbdumps/ -- if this link does not work in your country, try typing the address in hideme.ru or similar). I see there two dumps, one is 350 Gb and another 3 Tb, no idea what the difference is. In any case, after you have the dump you can set up your bittorrent client to download the whole library (around 40 Tb with all books and papers). That is how one can set up a mirror of libgen.
    – amoeba
    Commented Feb 16, 2016 at 16:40

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