bbc

Synopsis

bbc is a tiny utility that checks some basic properties of you bibtex files, orders the entries in an alphabetical order and style them in a uniform way.

Usage

bbc <bib_file> --output=<out_file>

The formated bibtex is printed in the <out_file> file, while error messages on the standard error output.

Add the flag --add-todo to assign a TODO value to missing fields which are required for the particular types of entries:

bbc <bib_file> --output=<out_file> --add-todo

If you toggle option --try-fix, it will try to find missing ISSN and other informations about journals (from DBpedia) or ISBN and other information for books (from Google Books).

How to install

1. Clone this project.
2. Using pipx you can install the utility from the main folder:

pipx install .

Prerequisities

This utility uses the following packages.

• bibtexparser to parse and print bibtex
• beautifulsoup4 to scrape web pages
• libisbn to work ISBNs and Google Books
• SPARQLWrapper to query DBpedia
• termcolor to have colored error messages
• pycountry to query countries

License

The software is distributed under the BSD License.

Acknowledgments

This project is based on prettybib.