Quick and dirty script to fetch individual paper PDFs for networking venues.

Usage

./fetch.sh imc 2019

./fetch.sh sigcomm 2018

Scope

Tested for 2016-2020 SIGCOMM, IMC, HotNets, NSDI, OSDI. Will probably work for other ACM and Usenix venues as well. More adapters welcome.

Requirements

On all platforms

• pip3 install BeautifulSoup4
• pip3 install requests
• assumes full PDFs are available on network
• bash version >= 4 (special for Mac OS, see below)
• wget

Mac OS

Apparently, the more recent versions of bash are not available for Mac because of license conflicts. Hence, adapt fetch.sh to use zsh instead (replace #!/bin/bash with #!/bin/zsh).

Also, wget is available via Homebrew (brew install wget). If you don't want to use brew, consider aliasing curl.