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bib-crawler

A bibtex scraper from command line

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0. Dependencies

Python modules requests, BeautifulSoup4 are required.

To install dependencies, do

pip install requests
pip install beautifulsoup4

1. Usage

The script bib-scrawler.sh searches inspirehep and returns the bibtex, given the title or eprint number of a paper. If a local .bib file is present, it will also ask if you wish to save the bibtex to the file.

To start using the script, source first

source bib-crawler.sh

Then you are ready to use the commands bibit and biball.

1.1 bibit

For most common usages, bibit is recommended because it is fast.

  • Search using the eprint number (arXiv) number of a paper

    bibit -e 1707.05319

  • Search using the title of a paper, for instance, "on black hole entropy"

    bibit -t on black hole entropy

1.2 biball

If bibit does not return the correct bib entry, this means more than one records have been found. Then biball should be used.

  • Search using the eprint number (arXiv) number of a paper

    biball -e 1707.05319

  • Search using the title of a paper

    biball -t on black hole entropy

That's it!

X. License

This software comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. This is a free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions. See the General Public License for details.