Simple python package to manage and sanitize .bib files.

From the terminal, cd to your directory of choice (/usr/local/share can be a good choice, depending on your distribution), and execute the following commands:

git clone https://github.com/lucainnocenti/bibtex-sanitizer
cd bibtex-sanitizer
pip install -e .

This will install the package into the current python environment. To later use the package in a script, import it with import bibtexsanitizer.

The script pybib.py allows to use bibtexsanitizer via command line, without the need to explicitly evoke python. To more easily use this script, you might want to alias it. For example, if you cloned the repository in /usr/local/share, add the following line to your ~/.bashrc (or ~/.zshrc, or equivalent for your shell):

alias pybib=/usr/local/share/bibtex-sanitizer/pybib.py

Run the following to test that everything is working as intended: pybib print arxiv 1801.1234.

Print and copy to clipboard the entry corresponding to the DOI in a given url:

pybib print doi https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.102.193601

Print and copy to clipboard entries corresponding to multiple given DOIs:

pybib print doi 10.1103/PhysRevLett.122.020503 10.1103/PhysRevA.96.062326 10.1088/1367-2630/aaad92

Print and copy to clipboard entries corresponding to a series of DOIs written in a file:

pybib print doi $(cat file_with_one_doi_per_line.txt)

Print and copy to clipboard entry from arxiv url (you don't need to use the full url, most strings containing the arxiv ID will work just as well):

pybib print arxiv https://arxiv.org/pdf/1803.07119.pdf

Build bibtex entries from a series of DOIs and put them in a file:

pybib print doi 10.1103/PhysRevLett.122.020503 10.1103/PhysRevA.96.062326 10.1088/1367-2630/aaad92 > file.bib

Extract the DOI urls from an online pdf and build the corresponding bibtex entries:

pybib print doi $(pybib extract doi https://arxiv.org/pdf/1803.07119.pdf )