Bibcure helps in boring tasks by keeping your bibtex file up to date and normalized.

Bibcure uses the wonderful Bibtex parser. In this moment we waiting for new release of python-bibtexparser to solve some bugs.

Install it using pip:

$ sudo python /usr/bin/pip install bibcure
# or
$ sudo pip install bibcure
# or
$ sudo pip3 install bibcure  # for Python 3

You can also install from the source: git clone the repository, and install with the setup.py script.

If you want download articles via a DOI number, article title or a bibtex file, using the database of arXiv, libgen or sci-hub, see bibcure/scihub2pdf.

Given a bib file...

$ bibcure -i input.bib -o output.bib

• check sure the arXiv items have been published, then update them (requires internet connection),

• complete all fields(url, journal, etc) of all bib items using DOI number (requires internet connection),

• find and create DOI number associated with each bib item which has not DOI field (requires internet connection),

• abbreviate journals names.

Given an arXiv id...

$ arxivcheck 1601.02785

• check if has been published, and then returns the updated bib (requires internet connection).

Given a title...

$ arxivcheck --title "A useful paper with hopefully unique title published on arxiv"

• search papers related and return a bibtex file for the first item.

You can easily append a bib into a bibfile, just do

$ arxivcheck --title "A useful paper with hopefully unique title published on arxiv" >> file.bib

You also can interact with results, just pass --ask parameter:

$ arxivcheck --ask --title "A useful paper with hopefully unique title published on arxiv"

Given a bibtex file

$ scihub2pdf -i input.bib

Given a DOI number...

$ scihub2pdf 10.1038/s41524-017-0032-0

Given an arXiv id...

$ scihub2pdf arxiv:1708.06891

Given a title...

$ scihub2bib --title "A useful paper with hopefully unique title"

or arxiv...

$ scihub2bib --title arxiv:"A useful paper with hopefully unique title"

Location folder as argument:

$ scihub2pdf -i input.bib -l somefolder/

Use libgen instead sci-hub:

$ scihub2pdf --uselibgen -i input.bib

Given a DOI number...

$ doi2bib 10.1038/s41524-017-0032-0

• get bib item given a DOI (requires internet connection)

You can easily append a bib into a bibfile, just do:

$ doi2bib 10.1038/s41524-017-0032-0 >> file.bib

You also can generate a bibtex from a txt file containing a list of DOIs:

$ doi2bib --input file_with_dois.txt --output refs.bib

Given a title...

$ title2bib "A useful paper with hopefully unique title"

• search papers related and return a bib for the selected paper (requires internet connection)

You can easily append a bib into a bibfile, just do

$ title2bib "A useful paper with hopefully unique title" --first >> file.bib

You also can generate a bibtex from a txt file containing a list of "titles"

$ title2bib --input file_with_titles.txt --output refs.bib --first

• Stable
• Annoying CAPTCHA
• Fast

• Unstable
• No CAPTCHA
• Slow

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