Usage: curl [source url]
Manually downloading the PDF and entering relevant metadata
with touch might be a bit painstaking. curl can download
paper PDFs from sources and automatically populate metadata.
You may populate additional metadata fields (e.g. nickname)
later using the set command.
Currently, two sources are supported: arXiv and usenix.org. [source url] must begin with 'http'.
Usage example:
curl https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.10735
curl https://arxiv.org/pdf/2003.10735.pdf
reason will visit the url and fetch the title and author
list. The venue will be set to arXiv, and the year will be
parsed from the arXiv identifier (20[YY]).
The PDF file will be download from the URL
https://arxiv.org/pdf/[YYNN.NNNNN].pdf and saved in the
storage.file_base_dir directory.
Usage example:
curl https://usenix.org/conference/atc21/presentation/lee
reason will visit the url and fetch the title and author
list.The venue will be parsed from the name of the conference
in the url. For instance,
The PDF file link will be parsed from HTML and the file will
be downloaded into the storage.file_base_dir directory.
At times, USENIX conferences provide multiple versions of the
paper (e.g., preprint and final). If so, reason will prompt
the user to choose one.
Usage example:
curl [URL of PDF]
All other urls that are not recognized to be one of the sources stated above are considered raw PDF urls.
reason will visit the url and download the PDF file. It will
also try to infer the essential metadata of the PDF by reading
the information dictionary. Usually this is only useful for
inferring the 'year' entry, but still better than nothing.