Elsevier Full-Text Downloader

Retrieve article metadata including abstracts (CSV, JSON) and full texts (original XML, plain text) by DOI or PII via the Elsevier Article Retrieval API. Everything runs locally in your browser; the API key is only sent to api.elsevier.com.

1. Access

ELS_APIKey

Remember API key in this browser (localStorage)

Create an API key: dev.elsevier.com/apikey/manage

2. Articles

DOIs or PIIs (one per line, or separated by commas, semicolons or spaces) Load list from file (.txt, .csv):

No identifiers entered.

Options

API view

Without a view, the API returns the full text if you are entitled to it.

Plain text source

Pause between requests (ms)

Minimum 100 ms, so the tool stays below Elsevier's limit of 10 requests per second.

Insert header (title, authors, source, abstract, keywords) Include figure and table captions Append reference list

3. Results and export

delimiter

	#	Preview	Identifier	Title	Year	Access	Content	Status	Files
No requests yet.

Bulk exports include only the selected rows.

Notes

API terms and quotas: Use of the Elsevier APIs is subject to the Elsevier API Service Agreement; text and data mining is governed by the TDM provisions. Elsevier limits requests per second and per week for each API key (see API key settings and quotas). On HTTP 429 the tool waits and retries up to three times.
Plain text: When full XML is available, the text is built from the sections of the article body (headings, paragraphs, lists). If that structure is missing, xocs:rawtext is used. Formulas (MathML) are kept as raw text only.
Licence terms for University of Bern members: Text and data mining on licensed Elsevier content is subject to your institution’s licence terms. Authorized users may mine subscribed ScienceDirect content via the Elsevier APIs for academic research only; crawlers and scraping are not permitted. Results may be stored on internal systems for authorized users, but the downloaded dataset must be deleted when the project ends. Hosting the dataset with third parties, including cloud services, requires Elsevier’s written permission. Results may be shared with the required licence notice, but not used commercially or to compete with Elsevier products. AI use is only permitted with closed tools (self-hosted, or not trained on your input) and nothing may become available to third parties. Open access content under a CC licence is governed solely by that licence. This is only a rough summary: please discuss your project with Digital Scholarship at the University Library Bern before you start.