BibTeX2BibJSON is a Python script and set of functions to convert BibTeX files / BibTeX strings to BibJSON. It is based on the BibtexParser library.
You can either use the bibtex2bibjson.py script directly or use the functions from bibjson.py in your existing code.
bibtex2bibjson.py will output the resulting BibJSON directly to stdout, while errors that might occur during conversion are printed to stderr. So in order to save the output to a file you need to call ./bibtex2bibjson.py MY_FILE.bib 1> MY_FILE.json. This will save the BibJSON data to MY_FILE.json and error messages will be printed to the console.
If you want to use the BibJSON functions in your existing code, you will probably need to import one of the following functions and use them according to what you want to do:
collection_from_bibtex_str(bib_str, **kwargs)-- create a complete BibJSON collection from a BibTeX string (which came from a BibTeX file, for example). This uses BibtexParser to parse the BibTeX string. You will need to pass a collection parameter which denotes the name of the BibJSON collection.collection_from_dict(entries, **kwargs)-- create a complete BibJSON collection from a BibtexParser-like dictionary. You will need to pass a collection parameter which denotes the name of the BibJSON collection.record_from_entry(key, entry, collection)-- create a single BibJSON record from a single BibtexParser-like entry. Identify the record by key (this will become the id and cite_key).
The implementation follows the official list of allowed entry types and fields and prints errors via logging.error() if required fields are missing or entry types cannot be handled.
- it has only been tested on Python 3.4 but should work on lower Python versions down to 2.7 without (major) modifications
- BibtexParser must be installed (for example via
pip)
BibJSON is still a draft (as of Feb. 2016) and the final format is not yet defined. Hence I followed the examples from the following resources to for the structure of the BibJSON output: