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IEEE Xplore PDF Download

Download PDF files from IEEE Xplore articles to the user's local disk.

Prerequisites

• The user must have access to the article (institutional subscription, open access, or personal subscription).
• If the article is behind a paywall and the user has no access, the download will fail.

PDF URL Patterns (Discovered via Testing)

IEEE Xplore has a two-layer PDF serving architecture:

Layer	URL	Purpose
Wrapper	{BASE_URL}/stamp/stamp.jsp?tp=&arnumber={ARNUMBER}	HTML page with iframe
Actual PDF	{BASE_URL}/stampPDF/getPDF.jsp?tp=&arnumber={ARNUMBER}&ref=	Direct PDF binary

Key discovery: The getPDF.jsp URL pattern is predictable — you can skip stamp.jsp entirely and navigate directly to the PDF. This cuts tool calls from 6 to 2 per paper.

Single Article Download (Optimized: 2 tool calls)

Step 1: Pre-check access, then navigate directly to PDF

First, check if the user has access by visiting the document page:

async () => {
  // Quick access check on the current document page
  const bodyText = document.body.innerText;
  const hasAccess = bodyText.includes('Access provided by');
  const accessLine = bodyText.match(/Access provided by[^\n]*/)?.[0] || '';
  return { hasAccess, accessLine };
}

If hasAccess is false, tell the user: "当前未登录或无权限访问此文章，请先在浏览器中完成机构登录。"

If access is confirmed, navigate directly to the getPDF URL (skip stamp.jsp):

navigate_page({
  url: "{BASE_URL}/stampPDF/getPDF.jsp?tp=&arnumber={ARNUMBER}&ref=",
  initScript: "Object.defineProperty(navigator, 'webdriver', {get: () => undefined})"
})

Step 2: Trigger download

(arnumber, title) => {
  if (document.contentType === 'application/pdf') {
    // Construct a readable filename
    const safeName = (title || '').replace(/[^\w\s-]/g, '').replace(/\s+/g, '_').substring(0, 60);
    const filename = arnumber + (safeName ? '-' + safeName : '') + '.pdf';
    const a = document.createElement('a');
    a.href = window.location.href;
    a.download = filename;
    document.body.appendChild(a);
    a.click();
    document.body.removeChild(a);
    return { downloaded: true, filename };
  }
  return { downloaded: false, contentType: document.contentType, error: 'Not a PDF. Access may be denied.' };
}