citation-grabber

Automatically download your bookmarked citations from Google Scholar in BibTex format.

Prerequisites

Node.js and npm is installed.

Installation

• Download or clone this repo
• navigate to its folder in a terminal

• run:

  npm install
  

Configuration

Duplicate the file config.js.sample, remove the .sample suffix and configure the parameters for your needs.

Usage

In a terminal

npm start

In TexStudio

• Create a new macro (“macros” > “edit macros…”)
• Click on “Add”
• Name it
• At “Type” select “Script”

• Latex Content: Fill in this script:

  Windows:

  %SCRIPT
  system("npm.cmd start", workingDirectory="[path-to-citation-grabber]")
  

  (Example:)

  %SCRIPT
  system("npm.cmd start", workingDirectory="C:/Users/morge/projects/citation-grabber/")
  

  Linux:

  %SCRIPT
  system("npm start", workingDirectory="/home/dmstern/projects/citation-grabber")
  

Now you can pull the your newest Google Scholar catations right from TeXStudio by pressing Shift+F[NumberOfMacro].

Troubleshooting

• Sometimes you have to run the script several times until it works.

• If you want to see what citation-grabber is actually doing, run

  npm run start:dev
  

• Alternatively (or additionally), you can run citation-grabber in debug mode by setting debugMode: true in your config.js file. This will take screenshots from every step of citation grabbing process.

If this does not solve the problem, please file a bug at GitHub issues.