bbc

Synopsis

bbc is a tiny utility that checks some basic properties of your bibtex files, orders the entries alphabetically and styles them uniformly.

Usage

bbc <bib_file> --output=<out_file>

The formated bibtex is printed in the <out_file> file, while error messages on the standard error output.

Add the flag --add-todo to assign a TODO value to missing fields which are required for the particular types of entries:

bbc <bib_file> --output=<out_file> --add-todo

If you toggle option --try-fix, it will try to find missing ISSN and other informations about journals (from DBpedia) or ISBN and other information for books (from Google Books).

How to install

Using pipx:

pipx install bbc

Prerequisities

This utility uses the following packages.

• bibtexparser to parse and print bibtex
• beautifulsoup4 to scrape web pages
• libisbn to work ISBNs and Google Books
• SPARQLWrapper to query DBpedia
• termcolor to have colored error messages
• pycountry to query countries

License

The software is distributed under the BSD License.

Acknowledgments

This project is based on prettybib.