bibrest

• Simple RESTful API to expose bibtex library
• Based on Python, using flask and pybtex
• Intended to be used as backend for websites rendering bibtex reference lists

Installation

Install flask and pybtex

sudo pip install flask pybtex

Then, the development flask server can be started with

python bibrest.py

It will serve the test.bib in the same folder.

Resources

/bibs?author=<authorlist>&project=<projectlist>&reverse=True&start=123

Will return all bibtex entries, including the project field. All arguments are optional

Arguments:

• reverse: set to True if order should be anti-chronologic
• author: give one or more author names (comma separated). Will return bibtex of all entries with those strings in author field.
• project: give one or more project names (comma separated). Will return bibtex of all entries with those projects.
• start: give starting year from which on results are returned

Example use: foo.bar/bibs?author=tippenhauer,mathur&project=aspire&reverse=True&start=2014

/bib/<key>

Will return bibtex for article <key>

/projects

Will return human readable list of all project keys in the database

/authors

Will return human readable list of all authors in the database

Deployment

For more stable deployments, we recommend gunicorn, apache, or nginx.

Todo/known bugs

• Only one project per entry
• Add ?year=2016 filter

Author

Nils Ole Tippenhauer, SUTD, 2016