bibtex-autocomplete VS bibcure

If you're looking for smart BibTeX auto-completion, I wrote a python script that does just that by searching a few online sources like crossref, arxiv, dblp...

In the long tradition of automating things that take less than 5 minutes to do manually, I've made a CLI script to autocomplete BibTeX entries (open source on github). A lot of work but now I can just copy/paste the title of any article I stumbled upon and the script will often do the rest.

I made a command-line tool to autocomplete bibtex entries in python : https://github.com/dlesbre/bibtex-autocomplete. It works by auto-querying a bunch of online databases (www.crossref.org, arxiv.org, dlbp.org, researchr.org, and unpaywall.org)

It is made in python, you can find out more on PyPi or github

You don't normally need to enter metadata manually. You can import it using the publication's doi, arxiv etc. Then papis gives you an opportunity to review and update the metadata. The other functionality that papis provides is a quick search through titles, authors etc.

Of course much of that can be done with doi2bib [0], arxiv2bib [1], etc., which you can combine with the wonderful bibtool [2] to keep a clean bibtex file. That's what I use and the advantage of this over papis is that you can version control it.

That said papis has its use. It's less heavy than zotero, a bit less proprietary format (the info is stored in yaml files iirc) and it provides a layer over bibtex. If it had full text indexing and search I could see myself using it more.

[0] https://github.com/bibcure/bibcure

[1] https://nathangrigg.github.io/arxiv2bib/

[2] https://www.gerd-neugebauer.de/software/TeX/BibTool/en/