CNKI (中国知网)

What: China's largest academic database — journals (科举网), theses/dissertations (学位论文), conference papers, yearbooks.

Use for: Chinese-language literature, Chinese university theses, domestic Chinese research, government reports. Essential for anything published primarily in Chinese.

Auth: FSSO/Shibboleth (off-campus works).

Module

from sustech_survival.sso.authlib.cnki import CNKIAuth

CNKIAuth.login()

auth = CNKIAuth()
ok = auth.login()          # headful Playwright
if ok:
    auth.page.goto('https://navi.cnki.net/')
    auth.browser.close()

Flow: CNKI FSSO Shibboleth endpoint with SUSTech entityID → SUSTech CAS → IdP consent → CNKI session.

Session: None. Login every time.

Login timeout: 120s.

Known trap: Cloudscraper fails off-campus. Use FSSO/Shibboleth SSO.