Download articles from Springer Professional journal web pages (e.g. 'Informatik-Spektrum')
When you visit a Springer Professional journal page with accessible articles a "Download N articles" button appears at the top left of the page.
Click the "Download ..." button to download all accessible articles from that page.
You will find the downloaded articles as PDF files in your "Downloads" folder, with file names including the name, year and issue number of the journal, as well as the title and authors of the article (e.g. Informatik-Spektrum-2017-2-art-14 Core Competence Shift Happens. Gunter Dueck.pdf
).
Install the Tampermonkey UserScript springer_professional_articles_downloader.user.js
.
Make sure to add .pdf
and .jpg
to the Whitelisted File Extensions
list on Tampermonkey's Settings
page.
Make sure the "Download Mode" is "Browser API" (on Tampermonkey's Settings
page).
(If you don't find a Whitelisted File Extensions
list on Tampermonkey's Settings
page UserScripts cannot download files in your browser. E.g. when checked in January 2018 Chrome supported downloads but Safari did not.)
You can only download articles you have a right to access and download, i.e. those articles that include a "PDF version download" link. E.g. "Open access" article will have such a link.
To download non-open access articles make sure you are logged in into your Springer Professional account and you have the permission to access the journal's articles.