Welcome to BibLib’s documentation!

A python library to handle BibTeX bibliographic data.

Installation

You can install the latest version from the Python package index. From the command line, enter (in some cases you have to precede the command with sudo):

$ pip install biblib

More information about the usage and how to get and install pip you find in the PIP documentation.

To install it manual, download the archive, unpack it, and type (in some cases you have to precede the command with sudo):

$ python setup.py install

Requirements

  • Python 2.7, 3.3+
  • pybtex for BibTeX parsing
  • isbnlib for retrieving citation entries via ISBN number
  • python-magic for detecting character encoding
  • unidecode for robust generation of citation-keys

Thanks

Thanks to Jackalope for his support while planing and designing biblib, and for his contribution of the Storage Module.