publistgen: generate static publication lists from bibtex files

The publistgen.py script generates html bibliography lists from bibtex-files. It uses the python library biblib for parsing bib files. It is the only reliable bibtex parser I have used so far.

The script was written for my own publication list but I got several requests to make it publicly available.

Requirements

• Python 3
• biblib (Either globally or cloned to the subdirectory biblib/)

Installation

Either install via python setup.py install or by simply cloning the biblib library to the biblib/ subdirectory.

Usage

Run

/path/to/publistgen.py bibfile.bib > publications.html

to generate publications.html which can be embedded in another html file. If you want to customize the output e.g. by linking to homepages of authors, you can overwrite default settings in a publist.py config file:

# a dict mapping author names (in utf8) to their homepage url
author_homepages = {
    'Thorsten Wißmann': "http://www8.informatik.uni-erlangen.de/thorsten",
}

This configuration file is a python file that is evaluated and thus can customize all functions that exist publistgen.py.