DOI traversal / CrossRef API

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"The standard way for getting the actual PDF from a DOI, when it's a Crossref DOI (which it probably is) is to use the full-text link, available in the CrossRef API. For DOI 10.1155/2010/963926 http://api.crossref.org/works/10.1155/2010/963926 From the returned JSON message -> link -> there's the PDF!"

[
  {
    intended-application: "text-mining",
    content-version: "vor",
    content-type: "application/pdf",
    URL: "http://downloads.hindawi.com/journals/jo/2010/963926.pdf"
  },
  {
    intended-application: "text-mining",
    content-version: "vor",
    content-type: "application/xml",
    URL: "http://downloads.hindawi.com/journals/jo/2010/963926.xml"
  }
]

via HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10452048

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Related: http://www.doi.org/