In case you use your I, Librarian database together with BibTeX, you will most probably will be annoyed by the recurring task to export your current literature database to a bibfile. Here is a short script that dumps all entries from a I, Librarian instance to your command line. So all you have to do in the future is to type
librariandump.sh > local.bib
to update your local BibTeX data.
#!/bin/bash
# configuration
LIBRARIAN_URL="http://url.to-host.example.com/librarian" # without trailing slash
HTTP_AUTH_USER="" # leave empty to disable HTTP Basic Authentication
HTTP_AUTH_PASS=""
LIBRARIAN_AUTH_USER="username"
LIBRARIAN_AUTH_PASS="password"
# sign in
COOKIEJAR=$(mktemp)
HTTP_AUTH=""
if [ "$HTTP_AUTH_USER" != "" ]
then
HTTP_AUTH="--user $HTTP_AUTH_USER:$HTTP_AUTH_PASS"
fi
RESPONSE=$(curl -s $HTTP_AUTH -b $COOKIEJAR -c $COOKIEJAR --data "form=signin&user=$LIBRARIAN_AUTH_USER&pass=$LIBRARIAN_AUTH_PASS" "$LIBRARIAN_URL/index2.php")
if [ "$RESPONSE" != "OK" ]
then
echo "Authentication failed. Response: $RESPONSE"
exit 1
fi
# fetch
curl -s $HTTP_AUTH -b $COOKIEJAR -c $COOKIEJAR "$LIBRARIAN_URL/display.php?select=library&browse<code class="tex2jax_ignore">\[\]</code>=all" > /dev/null
curl -s $HTTP_AUTH -b $COOKIEJAR -c $COOKIEJAR "$LIBRARIAN_URL/export.php?export_files=session&export=1&column%5B%5D=Unique+ID&column%5B%5D=Authors&column%5B%5D=Title&column%5B%5D=Journal&column%5B%5D=Year&column%5B%5D=Volume&column%5B%5D=Pages&column%5B%5D=Issue&column%5B%5D=Secondary+Title&column%5B%5D=DOI&format=BibTex&latex=1&style=text&encoding=utf-8&output=inline" | sed 's/<html><body><pre>//;s/<\/pre><\/body><\/html>//'
# cleanup
rm $COOKIEJAR
Update, 15/10/2014: For newer releases, the script needs a small modification: change the data argument of the next to last curl command from
--data "form=signin&user=$LIBRARIAN_AUTH_USER&pass=$LIBRARIAN_AUTH_PASS"
to
--data "form=signin&user=$LIBRARIAN_AUTH_USER&pass=$LIBRARIAN_AUTH_PASS&keepsigned=1"
2 thoughts on “I, Librarian BibTeX export via command line”
Hi. After updating my install to http://i-librarian.net/, the script does not work any more, it only says signed_out. Do you hav a fix? Thanx
Dear Hugo, please see the update of the post.