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SPIRES script is a command line program written in [http://www.python.org/ Python] that accesses information on papers in the [http://www.slac.stanford.edu/spires/ SPIRES] online high energy physics literature database.  It can access title, author and [[References with BiBTeX|BiBTeX]] records and update your local [[References with BiBTeX|BiBTeX]] database and/or a local HTML record of the papers you have.
SPIRES script is a command line program written in [http://www.python.org/ Python] that accesses information on papers in the [http://www.slac.stanford.edu/spires/ SPIRES] online high energy physics literature database.  It can access title, author, bibitem and [[References with BiBTeX|BiBTeX]] records and update your local [[References with BiBTeX|BiBTeX]].  A separate program [[#listcitations.py|listcitations.py]] reads through a TeX file and then looks up all the \cite{...} references and outputs the bibitems.


===installation on a GNU/Linux system===
===installation on a GNU/Linux system===
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at the command line and see what happens.
at the command line and see what happens.


If python and wget are present copy the [[#script|script]] into a text file with a name such as spires.py.
If python and wget are present download the script from [[Image:Spires-0.2.tar| sdfsdfsd sdfsdf ]]. Unpack this tar archive with
<pre>
tar -xvf Spires-0.2.tar
</pre>
 
You now should have two programs, spires.py and listcitations.py.


To run it type
To run spires.py type
<pre>
./spires.py hep-th/9711200
</pre>
or if this doesn't work, try
<pre>
<pre>
python spires.py hep-th/9711200
python spires.py hep-th/9711200
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===usage===
===usage===


The typical accepted inputs are the usual arXiv references or a SPIRES-style journal reference
The typical accepted inputs are the usual arXiv references, the SPIRES TeX key or a SPIRES-style journal reference
<pre>
<pre>
python spires.py hep-th/9711200
./spires.py hep-th/9711200
python spires.py 0705.0303
./spires.py 0705.0303
python spires.py CMPHA,43,199
./spires.py Maldacena:1997re
./spires.py CMPHA,43,199
</pre>
</pre>


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     SLACcitation  = "%%CITATION = HEP-TH/9711200;%%"
     SLACcitation  = "%%CITATION = HEP-TH/9711200;%%"
}
}
\cite{Maldacena:1997re}
Maldacena, Juan M.
Maldacena, Juan M.
The large N limit of superconformal field theories and supergravity
The large N limit of superconformal field theories and supergravity
<p><a href="http://arxiv.org/abs/hep-th/9711200">The large N limit of superconformal field theories and supergravity</a> by Maldacena, Juan M. (hep-th/9711200)</p>
\cite{Maldacena:1997re}
</pre>
</pre>


To see all the options access the help page
To see all the options access the help page
<pre>
<pre>
tom@fyodor:~$ python spires.py -h
tom@fyodor:~$ ./spires.py -h
SPIRES script
SPIRES script
Usage:
Usage:
python spires.py reference [ -hatbcevd ] [ --library library.bib ] [ --database database.html ]
python spires.py reference [ -hbiatcev ] [ --help ] [ --library library.bib ] [ --download download_path/ ]
"reference" must be a standard arXiv reference, e.g. hep-th/9711200 or 0705.0303, or a SPIRES journal reference, e.g. CMPHA,43,199
"reference" must be a standard arXiv reference, e.g. hep-th/9711200, 0705.0303, Maldacena:1997re or a SPIRES journal reference, e.g. CMPHA,43,199
Options:
Options:
-h, --help
-h, --help
displays this help message
displays this help message
-b
displays the BiBTeX entry
-i
displays the bibitem entry
-a
-a
displays the author(s)
displays the author(s)
-t
-t
displays the title
displays the title
-b
displays the BiBTeX entry
-c
-c
displays the LaTeX citation
displays the TeX citation key
-e
-e
displays everything
displays everything
-v
-v
verbose mode
verbose mode
-d
 
displays an HTML database entry
--download download_path/
for arXiv references downloads a pdf of the paper from the arXiv to the directory download_path/
--library library.bib
--library library.bib
if it is not already in library.bib, appends the BiBTeX entry to library.bib
if it is not already in library.bib, appends the BiBTeX entry to library.bib; use at your own risk
--database database.html
if it is not already in database.html, appends the HTML database entry to database.html
</pre>
</pre>


Each item can be specified individually with switches, e.g. -t for title, -a for authors, -b for BiBTeX entry, -c for LaTeX citation, -d for HTML database entry.  For example
Each item can be specified individually with switches, e.g. -t for title, -a for authors, -b for BiBTeX entry, -c for SPIRES TeX key.  For example
<pre>
<pre>
tom@fyodor:~$ python spires.py hep-th/9711200 -at
tom@fyodor:~$ python spires.py hep-th/9711200 -at
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</pre>
</pre>


If you keep an HTML list of papers in database.html then the script can update the file
===listcitations.py===
<pre>
 
python spires.py hep-th/9711200 --database database.html
</pre>


===future features===
===future features===
* It would be good to have an option to download eprints from the [http://www.arxiv.org arXiv].  Unfortunately the arXiv blocks wget downloads and there doesn't seem to be a way around this.
* Aliases in listcitations.py
* Battle-hardening for error handling.


===comments and bugs===
===comments and bugs===
If you have any comments or find bugs, please contact [[User:Tom|Tom]].
If you have any comments or find bugs, please contact [[User:Tom|Tom]].
===script===
Copy the following into a text file with a name such as spires.py
<pre>
#! /usr/bin/python
## SPIRES script version 0.1
## Copyright 2007 Tom Brown
## This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
## modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public Licence as
## published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the
## License, or any later version.
## This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
## WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
## MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU
## General Public License for more details.
## The GNU General Public Licence is available at
## http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html
import sys, os, getopt, re
libraryOpt = 0
databaseOpt = 0
authorOpt = 0
titleOpt = 0
bibtexOpt = 0
citeOpt = 0
verboseOpt = 0
htmlOpt = 0
try:
    options, arguments = getopt.gnu_getopt(sys.argv[1:],
    'hatbcevd', ['help','library=', 'database='])
except getopt.error:
    print 'error: you tried to use an unknown option or the argument for an option that requires it was missing; try \'spires.py -h\' for more information'
    sys.exit(0)
for o,a in options:
    if o in  ('-h','--help'):
        print '''SPIRES script
Usage:
python spires.py reference [ -hatbcevd ] [ --library library.bib ] [ --database database.html ]
"reference" must be a standard arXiv reference, e.g. hep-th/9711200 or 0705.0303, or a SPIRES journal reference, e.g. CMPHA,43,199
Options:
-h, --help
displays this help message
-a
displays the author(s)
-t
displays the title
-b
displays the BiBTeX entry
-c
displays the LaTeX citation
-e
displays everything
-v
verbose mode
-d
displays an HTML database entry
--library library.bib
if it is not already in library.bib, appends the BiBTeX entry to library.bib
--database database.html
if it is not already in database.html, appends the HTML database entry to database.html
'''
        sys.exit(0)
    elif o == '--library':
        if a == '':
            print '--library expects an argument'
            sys.exit(0)
        libraryOpt = 1
        BiBTeXlibraryFileName = os.path.expanduser(a)
        print 'library file name is ' + BiBTeXlibraryFileName
       
    elif o == '--database':
        if a == '':
            print '--database expects an argument'
            sys.exit(0)
        databaseOpt = 1
        databaseFileName = os.path.expanduser(a)
        print 'database file name is ' + databaseFileName
    elif o == '-a':
        authorOpt = 1
       
    elif o == '-t':
        titleOpt = 1
       
    elif o == '-b':
        bibtexOpt = 1
       
    elif o == '-c':
        citeOpt = 1
    elif o == '-d':
        htmlOpt = 1
    elif o == '-e':
        authorOpt = 1
        titleOpt = 1
        bibtexOpt = 1
        citeOpt = 1
        htmlOpt = 1
    elif o == '-v':
        verboseOpt = 1
if len(arguments) != 1:
    print 'you didn\'t specify a SPIRES reference'
    sys.exit(0)
else:
    ref=arguments[0]
if len(options) == 0:
    authorOpt = 1
    titleOpt = 1
    bibtexOpt = 1
    citeOpt = 1
    htmlOpt = 1 
if verboseOpt:
    print 'reference is ' + ref
oldeprint = 0
neweprint = 0
journal = 0
numbers = ['0','1','2','3','4','5','6','7','8','9']
# These tests are not infallible: for example 054/234 will be counted
# as an old-style eprint
if ref.count('/') > 0:
    oldeprint = 1
    type = 'this is an old-style eprint reference'
elif ref[0] in numbers:
    neweprint = 1
    type = 'this is a new-style eprint reference'
else:
    journal = 1
    type = 'this is a journal reference'
if verboseOpt:
    print type
if oldeprint:
    os.system('wget http://www.slac.stanford.edu/spires/find/hep/wwwbriefbibtex?eprint=' + ref + ' -q -O spires.html')
elif neweprint:
    os.system('wget http://www.slac.stanford.edu/spires/find/hep/wwwbriefbibtex?eprint=arXiv:' + ref + ' -q -O spires.html')
elif journal:
    os.system('wget http://www.slac.stanford.edu/spires/find/hep/wwwbriefbibtex?j=' + ref + ' -q -O spires.html')
spiresHTMLfile = open('spires.html', 'r')
BiBTeX = spiresHTMLfile.read()
spiresHTMLfile.close()
os.remove('spires.html')
if 'No records' in BiBTeX:
  print "no records were found in SPIRES to match your search, please try again"
  sys.exit(0)
 
BiBTeX = BiBTeX[BiBTeX.find('@'):]
BiBTeX = BiBTeX[:BiBTeX.find('}')+1]
if bibtexOpt:
    print BiBTeX
# remove excess white space and replace with a single space
data = re.sub(r'\s+',r' ',BiBTeX)
cite = data[data.find('{')+1:data.find(',')]
if citeOpt:
    print '\cite{' + cite + '}'
author = data[data.find('author'):]
author = author[author.find('\"')+1:]
author = author[:author.find('\"')]
if authorOpt:
    print author
title = data[data.find('title'):]
title = title[title.find('\"')+1:]
title = title[:title.find('\"')]
if titleOpt:
    print title
if libraryOpt:
    libraryfile = open(BiBTeXlibraryFileName, 'r+')
    library = libraryfile.read()
    if library.count(cite) == 0:
        print 'adding BiBTeX entry to bib_string.bib'
        #find the end of the file (the second argument means count from
        #the end of the file
        libraryfile.seek(0,2)
        libraryfile.write('\n' + BiBTeX + '\n')
    else:
        print 'BiBTeX entry already in library'
    libraryfile.close()
if oldeprint:
    databaseEntry = '<p><a href=\"http://arxiv.org/abs/' + ref + '\">' + title + '</a> by ' + author + ' (' + ref + ')</p>'
elif neweprint:
    databaseEntry = '<p><a href=\"http://arxiv.org/abs/' + ref + '\">' + title + '</a> by ' + author + ' (' + ref + ')</p>'
elif journal:
    databaseEntry = '<p><a href=\"http://www.slac.stanford.edu/spires/find/hep/www?j=' + ref + '\">' + title + '</a> by ' + author + ' (' + ref + ')</p>'
if htmlOpt:
    print databaseEntry
if databaseOpt:
   
    databasefile = open(databaseFileName, 'r+')
    database = databasefile.read()
    if database.count(ref) == 0:
        print 'adding to database'
        databasefile.seek(0,2)
        databasefile.write('\n' + databaseEntry + '\n')
    else:
        print 'HTML entry already in database'
    databasefile.close()
</pre>


===licence===
===licence===
This script is Copyright 2007 Tom Brown and made available under the [http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html GNU General Public Licence].
This script is Copyright 2007 Tom Brown and made available under the [http://www.gnu.org/copyleft/gpl.html GNU General Public Licence].

Revision as of 19:01, 6 July 2007

SPIRES script is a command line program written in Python that accesses information on papers in the SPIRES online high energy physics literature database. It can access title, author, bibitem and BiBTeX records and update your local BiBTeX. A separate program listcitations.py reads through a TeX file and then looks up all the \cite{...} references and outputs the bibitems.

installation on a GNU/Linux system

The script requires the python interpreter and wget to be installed on your system. These are automatically installed on most GNU/Linux distributions, but check they are there by typing 

python

and 

wget

at the command line and see what happens.

If python and wget are present download the script from File:Spires-0.2.tar. Unpack this tar archive with 

tar -xvf Spires-0.2.tar

You now should have two programs, spires.py and listcitations.py.

To run spires.py type 

./spires.py hep-th/9711200

or if this doesn't work, try 

python spires.py hep-th/9711200

usage

The typical accepted inputs are the usual arXiv references, the SPIRES TeX key or a SPIRES-style journal reference 

./spires.py hep-th/9711200
./spires.py 0705.0303
./spires.py Maldacena:1997re
./spires.py CMPHA,43,199

If no options are specified all possible outputs will be displayed 

tom@fyodor:~$ python spires.py hep-th/9711200
@Article{Maldacena:1997re,
     author    = "Maldacena, Juan M.",
     title     = "The large N limit of superconformal field theories and
                  supergravity",
     journal   = "Adv. Theor. Math. Phys.",
     volume    = "2",
     year      = "1998",
     pages     = "231-252",
     eprint    = "hep-th/9711200",
     SLACcitation  = "%%CITATION = HEP-TH/9711200;%%"
}
Maldacena, Juan M.
The large N limit of superconformal field theories and supergravity
\cite{Maldacena:1997re}

To see all the options access the help page 

tom@fyodor:~$ ./spires.py -h
SPIRES script
Usage:
python spires.py reference [ -hbiatcev ] [ --help ] [ --library library.bib ] [ --download download_path/ ]
"reference" must be a standard arXiv reference, e.g. hep-th/9711200, 0705.0303, Maldacena:1997re or a SPIRES journal reference, e.g. CMPHA,43,199
Options:
-h, --help
displays this help message
-b
displays the BiBTeX entry
-i
displays the bibitem entry
-a
displays the author(s)
-t
displays the title
-c
displays the TeX citation key
-e
displays everything
-v
verbose mode

--download download_path/
for arXiv references downloads a pdf of the paper from the arXiv to the directory download_path/
--library library.bib
if it is not already in library.bib, appends the BiBTeX entry to library.bib; use at your own risk

Each item can be specified individually with switches, e.g. -t for title, -a for authors, -b for BiBTeX entry, -c for SPIRES TeX key. For example 

tom@fyodor:~$ python spires.py hep-th/9711200 -at
Maldacena, Juan M.
The large N limit of superconformal field theories and supergravity

If you have a BiBTeX database file such as library.bib then the script can update the file with the BiBTeX entry if it is not already present 

python spires.py hep-th/9711200 --library library.bib

listcitations.py

future features

  • Aliases in listcitations.py

comments and bugs

If you have any comments or find bugs, please contact Tom.

licence

This script is Copyright 2007 Tom Brown and made available under the GNU General Public Licence.

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