Quick download IEEE paper

Recently, IEEEXplorer has introduced a STAMP on when you download publications from the site. So everytime you click a link to download/open the pdf in the browser there is a IEEE image banner and the pdf in the bottom frame. Sometimes it has happens that the PDF does not open even after waiting for a long time. So here is a simple trick to download the pdf file.

For e.g : If the link that you are trying to open is :

http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&isnumber=&arnumber=823551

then just copy that address and paste in the terminal and REPLACE the PART as below

http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stampPDF/getPDF.jsptp=&isnumber=&arnumber=823551

Now use 'wget' to download the file as mypaper.pdf.

[DONT FORGET THE QUOTES around the link] wget

"http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/stampPDF/getPDF.jsp?tp=&isnumber=&arnumber=823551" -O mypaper.pdf

For IWL users: It is assumed that wget recognizes your proxy settings (might be through cntlm/ntproxy). Else use konqueror to open the new link, konqueror can directly open/download the PDF.

Proxy-settings for konqueros is in "Tools-Configure Konqueror-Proxy"