Bib Generator

bib-generator

By Xeophon

Generate a BibTex entry by searching through DBLP

bib

academia

research

Paste this command in a terminal to install the package

espanso install bib-generator

Description

Source

bib-generator

Generates a bib entry from a matching regex using espanso.

Requires Python 3 installed on your system.

Usage

Just write

:cite:<your search>:

anywhere, it will show 5 results in a form and then replace your text with the .bib entry you selected in the form. It uses the DBLP API under the hood, which is restricted to computer science papers only. I highly recommend searching with

<Author> <Some parts of the title>

to improve the search results, as

<Some parts of the title>

often results in irrelevant results.

Note: Espanso limits the regex matches to 30 characters (Source), so you must limit your query.

package.yml

matches:
  - regex: ":cite:(?P<citation>.*?):"
    replace: "{{final}}"
    vars:
      - name: dblp_search_results
        type: script
        params:
          args:
            - python
            - "%CONFIG%/match/packages/bib-generator/dblp_multi_search.py"
            - "{{citation}}"
      - name: form1
        type: form
        params:
          layout: |
            Select bib entry:
            [[entries]]
          fields:
            entries:
              type: list
              values: "{{dblp_search_results}}"
      - name: final
        type: script
        params:
          args:
            - python
            - "%CONFIG%/match/packages/bib-generator/bib_generator.py"
            - "{{form1.entries}}"

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