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How can Sci-Hub and LibGen be mirrored? When I last looked into it, it was closed source.

Sci-Hub is closed source. LibGen is open source, but published as code drops rather than using an actual VCS.

Download the web app from http://gen.lib.rus.ec/code/libgen_legacy_catalog_20190831.ra...

Download the database from http://gen.lib.rus.ec/dbdumps/

Sci-Hub is also mirrored to Library Genesis.

The important part is not the source code but the content. As for libgen, they provide torrents per 1000 (I think) books, so maybe downloading and seeding those could be helpful? (But I heard they recently created IPFS mirros as well)

Both are important here. When I was looking into it, the data was useless without the source code. The names are obfuscated and impossible to query without the application source plus the map of file names to document metadata.

I would be unable to mirror LibGen and Sci-Hub with what is currently available. I would be ECSTATIC to be proven wrong.

Oh yeah, you are right. But in the case of libgen, other’s mentioned it is open source.

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