rebiber vs bibtool

rebiber

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

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. (by ge-ne)

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rebiber		bibtool
	Project
2	Mentions	2
2,450	Stars	193
-	Growth	-
5.6	Activity	0.0
3 months ago	Latest Commit	7 months ago
Python	Language	C
MIT License	License	GNU General Public License v3.0 only

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rebiber

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[D] How to find conference citation from arxiv
1 project | /r/MachineLearning | 21 Dec 2022

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

This is great! Especially nice to be able to remove entire fields.
Relatedly, here are a couple of tools to ensure that references are complete (e.g. updating arXiv papers to their published versions, mostly for computer science papers):
- https://github.com/yuchenlin/rebiber (CLI, web interface)
- https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~ga384/bibfix.html (only *ACL papers, web interface with diff, disclaimer: mine)

bibtool

Posts with mentions or reviews of bibtool. We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives and similar projects. The last one was on 2023-06-01.