python script replaces entries in the bibtex library created by Papers with those found in ADS (Astrophysics Data System) without modifying the cite-key.
Papers is a wonderfull tool to download and organize academic papers. Unfortunaelly, the metadata it collects is often incomplete, so that article bibliographies have to be curated by hand. Here is where papers2ads comes in. It will read the bibtex file exported by Papers and fetch the corresponding references from ADS and merge them with the human-readable citation keys (citekeys) generated by Papers. One ends up with the best of both worlds: Compelte and curated ADS bibtex metadata and the abilty to search and organize articles with Papers software.
*** To run papers2ads.py on your Papers library, simply export the library as a bibtex file (e.g., test.bib) and then run:
- python papers2ads test.bib -