Deprecation notice: DO NOT USE THIS CODE ANYMORE. This code is not being maintained. It has been updated and packaged into a new tool called paperfetcher, with many more features, tests, and documentation. Use paperfetcher instead of this code.
A simple tool to fetch citations using the Crossref REST API.
Refer to Crossref REST API documentation at https://github.com/CrossRef/rest-api-doc.
- python 3
- tqdm (optional; for neat progress bars in console/GUI)
- Libary functions (in
crm_lib.py) - Usage examples (in
crm_examples.py) - Script to fetch all works from a journal (
fetch_all_journal_works.py)
Edit parameters in fetch_all_journal_works.py to customize the script for a
specific search.
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Before running any scripts, set the value of the POLITE_MAILTO constant in
crm_lib.pyto your email address. -
To use the library functions in a Python script (must be in the same directory as
crm_lib.py)
import crm_lib- To run examples from console:
python crm_lib_examples.py- To fetch all works from a journal after applying filters:
python fetch_all_journal_works.py