Downloading Public NASA Research

I recently found that NASA has been publishing their research on National Center For Biotechnology Infomration. However, since even some of our national parks are shuting down these days, I though I should download the NASA research while I can.

Code

Compiling the list

  1. I found out that https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/####/pdf will redirect to a PDF when #### is replaced by the ID of the publication
  2. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/?term=%22nasa+funded%22%5BFilter%5D will allow you to display up to 100 items in a PMCID List
  3. Using Burp, I was able to find a pattern to their requests.
  4. Wrote a script to post specific post values until all 939 items were found

You can download the list from here.


January 27 2017