kbib 0.1.2

A tool to get bibtex entries from DOIs or PDFs

kbib: A tool to get bibtex entries from DOIs or PDFs.

🐱‍🏍 Installation

Download and install the latest package from the release section or directly by pip

pip install kbib

For paring bibtex information from PDF files, optional dependencies need to be installed

pip install kbib['pdf']

⚡ Features

1. Get bibtex entry from DOI.
2. Get bibtex entry from article pdf.
3. Get full list of references of an article as bibtex entries.

🚀 Usage

Use the command line tool kbib as

kbib [-h] [-bib DOI] [-ref DOI] [-pdf [PDF [PDF ...]]] [-o DOI]

Argument	Description
-bib	DOI to get bibtex entry
-ref	DOI to get bibtex entries for all the references
-pdf	PDF file name(s) to get DOI
-o	Output bib file

1. Get bibtex from a DOI

   kbib -bib https://doi.org/10xxxxxx
   

2. Get bibtex from a DOI and store in a file 'ref.bib'

   kbib -bib https://doi.org/10xxxxxx -o ref.bib
   

3. Get the full reference list of an article as bibtex entries and save as ref.bib

   kbib -ref https://doi.org/10xxxxxx -o ref.bib
   

4. Get bibtex from a PDF named article.pdf

   kbib -pdf article.pdf
   

5. Get bibtex from all pdf in the current folder

   kbib -pdf *.pdf
   

⚓Limitation:

Currently it parses DOI information from Crossref API. So if the article is not indexed in Crossref database this tool will fail to get the necessary information.

⚒ Work-in-Progress:

1. Concurrent API calls for faster parsing of bibtex information.
2. Set bibtex entry keys in a predefined format.
3. Ise abbreviated journal names.