URL to BibTeX Converter (url2bib)

url2bib is a commandline tool for converting URLs of papers into into BibTeX citations. It tries to use the publication information rather than the arXiv url.

Installation

pip install url2bib

Using as a Commandline Tool

url2bib https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.11477

Using as a Library

You can also use url2bib as a Python library with several key functions:

from url2bib import url2bibtex, doi2bibtex, isbn2bibtex, parse_bibtex

# Convert a URL to BibTeX
bibtex: str = url2bibtex('https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.11477')

# Convert a DOI to BibTeX
bibtex: str = doi2bibtex('10.1145/3447548.3467160')

# Convert an ISBN to BibTeX
bibtex: str = isbn2bibtex('9780123456789')

# Parse a BibTeX string into a dictionary
bib_dict: dict = parse_bibtex(bibtex)

Additional Library Features

• set_verbosity(True): Enable verbose logging
• get_dblp_bibtexs(paper_title): Search for publications on DBLP

Features

• Extracts DOIs from URLs and retrieves BibTeX citations for those DOIs.
• Searches for publications of the paper.
• Generates a BibTeX entry with a unified ID in the format {firstAuthorSurname}_{year}_{titleFirstWord}.

Contributing

Contributions to this project are welcome. If you have any suggestions or want to report issues, please open an issue or submit a pull request.

License

This project is under the GNU GPLv3 license.

Acknowledgments

This script uses the bibtexparser library for parsing and generating BibTeX entries. It also relies on external data sources such as doi.org and dblp.org to fetch BibTeX entries.

Disclaimer

This script is provided as-is, and the accuracy of the generated BibTeX entries depends on the availability and quality of external data sources. Always double-check and edit citations as needed for your research papers and publications.

Happy citing with url2bib!