RETIRED: SEE bibsearch

searchtobibtex: tools to manage bibtex and pdfs via crossref searches

pdftobibtex − Retrieves bibtex data for PDFs of journal papers, by performing a crossref search query via the DOI.

pdf-rename-by-doi − Renames PDFs of journal papers, by performing a crossref search query to retrieve author, year, journal and title data.

searchtobibtex − Performs a crossref search query to retrieve bibtex data.

searchtobrowser − Performs a crossref search query to find digital object identifiers and opens up the resulting webpages.

pdf-rename-by-doi

pdf-rename-by-doi − Renames PDFs of journal papers, by performing a crossref search query to retrieve author, year, journal and title data.

SYNOPSIS

pdf-rename-by-doi [-v] [-f KEYFORMAT] PDF_FILES

pdf-rename-by-doi [-v] [-f KEYFORMAT] [-d] DOI PDF_FILE

DESCRIPTION

This program searches the first two pages of the PDF for a DOI. It looks up that DOI using the crossref API, and renames the PDF according to the format string KEYFORMAT.

OPTIONS

-v Verbose mode: write information about the move operation to stdout. Skipped files or directories are always written to stderr.

-f KEYFORMAT

The format string passed to bibtool, to generate the bibtex key. Defaults to ’%3n(author)-(journal)-(title)-%+4d($year)’ (see man(1) bibtool). The (journal) and (title) options are parsed before being passed to bibtool.

-d DOI Instead of scraping the PDF file for a DOI, specify the DOI as an argument. In this case, you can only rename one file at a time.

EXAMPLES

To rename all PDF files in-place in the directory called papers,

pdf-rename-by-doi papers/*.pdf

To rename all PDF files in the directory called papers, sorting into a new subdirectory named by year,

pdf-rename-by-doi -f ’%+4d(year)/%3n(author)-(journal)-(title)-%+4d(year)’ papers/*.pdf

To rename all PDF files in-place in subdirectories of the directory called papers

pdf-rename-by-doi papers/*/*.pdf

pdftobibtex

pdftobibtex − Retrieves bibtex data for PDFs of journal papers, by performing a crossref search query via the DOI.

SYNOPSIS

pdftobibtex [-f KEYFORMAT] PDF_FILES

DESCRIPTION

This program searches the first two pages of the PDF for a DOI. It looks up that DOI using the crossref API, and dumps the retrieved bibtex entry to stdout. The bibtex key is formatted according to the format string KEYFORMAT.

OPTIONS

-f KEYFORMAT

The format string passed to bibtool, to generate the bibtex key. Defaults to ’%3n(author):%+4d($year)’ (see man(1) bibtool).

EXAMPLES

To find bibtex entries for all pdf files in the directory called papers, and append them to a file called mybib.bib,

pdftobibtex papers/*.pdf >> mybib.bib

searchtobibtex

searchtobibtex − Performs a crossref search query to retrieve bibtex data.

SYNOPSIS

searchtobibtex [-r NUM] [-y YEAR] [-f KEYFORMAT] SEARCH_STRING

DESCRIPTION

This program performs a freeform crossref search query agains the string SEARCH_STRING and dumps the resulting bibtex data to stdout.

OPTIONS

-r NUM

Return only NUM results (default 1)

-y YEAR

Restrict results to year=YEAR

-f KEYFORMAT

The format string passed to bibtool, to generate the bibtex key. Defaults to ’%3n(author):%+4d($year)’ (see man(1) bibtool).

EXAMPLES

To append to the ’mybibliography.bib’ file the bibloagraphic data from a freeform lookup, with year specified:

searchtobibtex -y 1953 "A structure for deoxyribonucleaic acid Watson Crick" >> mybibliography.bib

To write to stdout the first five papers by someone called Einstein in 1905, try

searchtobibtex -r 5 -y 1905 "Einstein"

SEARCHTOBROWSER

NAME

searchtobrowser − Performs a crossref search query to find digital object identifiers and opens up the resulting webpages.

SYNOPSIS

searchtobrowser [-r NUM] [-y YEAR] [-b BROWSER] SEARCH_STRING

DESCRIPTION

This program performs a freeform crossref search query agains the string SEARCH_STRING and opens up the associated web pages in your browser.

OPTIONS

-r NUM

Return only NUM results (default 1)

-y YEAR

Restrict results to year=YEAR

-b BROWSER

Specify the browser command to use. Defaults to x-www-browser.

EXAMPLES

To open up the page for the paper matching a search and restricting results to 1953:

searchtobrowser -y 1953 "A structure for deoxyribonucleaic acid Watson Crick"

To open the first five papers by someone called Einstein in 1905, try

searchtobrowser -r 5 -y 1905 "Einstein"

To do the same but in chromium, try

searchtobrowser -b chromium -r 5 -y 1905 "Einstein"

AUTHOR

Ati Sharma a.sharma@soton.ac.uk

REPORTING BUGS

Please email the author with any bugs.

COPYRIGHT

Copyright (C) 2015 Ati Sharma License GPLv3+: GNU GPL version 3 or later <http://gnu.org/licenses/gpl.html>. This is free software: you are free to change and redistribute it. There is NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by law.

SEE ALSO

pdf-rename-by-doi(1), pdftobibtex(1), doitobibtex(1), bibtool(1), bibclean(1)