antilibrary 0.1.0

Manage BibTeX libraries from the terminal

antilibrary

Manage a BibTeX file from the terminal.

Install

pip install antilibrary
# or
uv tool install antilibrary

Usage

Antilibrary operates on a single .bib file resolved in this order:

1. -f / --file FILE argument
2. $ANTILIBRARY_BIB environment variable

export ANTILIBRARY_BIB=~/refs/main.bib

antilibrary add                          # interactively add an entry
antilibrary get smith2024                # print citation for a key
antilibrary browse                       # list entries
antilibrary browse -q "attention"        # fuzzy search
antilibrary browse -t "nlp,transformers" # filter by tags
antilibrary remove smith2024             # delete an entry

Citation styles

antilibrary get KEY --style {bibtex|bibtex-full|latex|org-cite|pandoc} prints a citation in the requested format:

style	output
bibtex	smith2024
bibtex-full	the whole entry
latex	\cite{smith2024}
org-cite	[cite:@smith2024]
pandoc	[@smith2024]

Adding entries

antilibrary add is interactive — it prompts for type, title, author, year, key, and any extra fields. Adding an entry that matches an existing one (by DOI, arXiv ID, ISBN, or normalized title+author) silently fills any empty fields on the existing entry rather than creating a duplicate. Pass --no-merge to skip on duplicate, or --force to append anyway with an auto-suffixed key.

Companion tools (planned):

• bibzapper — batch extraction from PDFs, EPUBs, URLs, DOIs, arXiv IDs, or ISBNs into a .bib file.
• bibsearcher — online search (movies, TV, music, papers, books) → BibTeX.

License

MIT