biblint vs betterbib

biblint

BibLint -- a system for fixing bibtex databases (by Kingsford-Group)

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betterbib

:green_book: Command-line tools for bibliographies. (by texworld)

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biblint		betterbib
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1	Mentions	3
20	Stars	805
-	Growth	0.2%
0.0	Activity	2.8
almost 2 years ago	Latest Commit	about 1 month ago
Go	Language	Python
GNU General Public License v3.0 or later	License	GNU General Public License v3.0 only

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biblint

Posts with mentions or reviews of biblint. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-11-25.

BibTeX Tidy
14 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 25 Nov 2021

betterbib

Posts with mentions or reviews of betterbib. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-11-25.

BibTeX Tidy
14 projects | news.ycombinator.com | 25 Nov 2021

I find formatting is usually a nonissue with BibTeX files as entries tend to already be automatically generated from some authoritative source (e.g., CrossRef).
What I do end up using a lot however is nschloe's betterbib [1].
[1] https://github.com/nschloe/betterbib
Nschloe/betterbib: Update BibTeX files with info from online resources
1 project | news.ycombinator.com | 27 May 2021
betterbib
2 projects | /r/LaTeX | 24 Feb 2021

What are some alternatives?

When comparing biblint and betterbib you can also consider the following projects:

rebiber - A simple tool to update bib entries with their official information (e.g., DBLP or the ACL anthology).

zotero-better-bibtex - Make Zotero effective for us LaTeX holdouts

allmytexs

bibtool - BibTool is a tool for manipulating BibTeX data bases. BibTeX provides a mean to integrate citations into LaTeX documents. BibTool allows the manipulation of BibTeX files which goes beyond the possibilities -- and intentions -- of BibTeX.

A-tidy-LaTeX-project-templ

jabref - Graphical Java application for managing BibTeX and biblatex (.bib) databases

writegood-mode - Minor mode for Emacs to improve English writing

.config - NeoVim configuration optimized for writing in LaTeX

zotero - Zotero is a free, easy-to-use tool to help you collect, organize, annotate, cite, and share your research sources.