ainspire is an Alfred 2 workflow for searching papers on INSPIRE.
It can do the following:
- Searching all of INSPIRE from within Alfred.
- Open the INSPIRE record page of a paper.
- Search for more publications of a paper author.
- Download and open the arXiv PDF of a paper.
- Open the DOI referral of a paper.
- Lookup references of a paper.
- Lookup citations of a paper.
- Copy the paper's BibTeX to the clipboard.
- Search locally stored papers
Download the latest release and open it (from the Finder or from Alfred) to import it in Alfred.
You can search INSPIRE by typing insp {query} in Alfred's main input. insp is the default keyword,
which can be changed editing the workflow via Aflred's prefences. For instance,
will search for all papers that match witten. In order to perform the actual
search, you will need to hit enter after typing a search query. Beforing hitting
enter, ainspire will show you list of previous searches that match the
current one.
After pressing enter, Alfred will display the INSPIRE search results:
The loading of results may a couple of seconds or more, depending on the current traffic on INSPIRE. Each paper in the search results is formatted as follows:
Title of paper
(Eprint or Year) Authors (Journal)
After selecting a paper from the results and pressing enter, a menu for that paper appears:
From this menu, it is possible to do further searches (e.g. for more papers of the authors or for citations of the paper), to go various websites (e.g. the INSPIRE record page or the DOI referral page), or to copy the BibTeX of the paper to the clipboard.
If the paper has more than one author, selecting the Find more papers of authors item
will display another menu, from which it is possible search for papers from one of the authors.
Selecting the arXiv e-print will download it to a local folder (which can be set
in ainspire's settings) and open it.
By only entering the ainspire keyword (which is insp by default), it is possible
to go to ainspire's settings:
There, the following can be changed:
- The cache can be cleared, which erased all stored previous searches.
- The cache timeout (in days) can be adjusted, which affects how long searches are cached.
- The local directory where PDFs from the arXiv can be set. It defaults to
~/Papers.
Not only does the local directory contain the PDFs downloaded from the arXiv, it can
also be searched for PDFs with the paper keyword:
Besides returning PDFs that match the search query, the local search also offers a fallback INSPIRE search for the same query, in case the locally stored PDFs are not what you're looking for.
ainspire only loads up to 100 results per search. Also, when looking up citations or references
of a paper, ainspire only shows those papers that have records in INSPIRE. Thus citations to
websites and such will not be included in the list of citations.
Furthermore, the BibTeX that can be copied to the clipboard is not the exact same BibTeX as
obtained directly from the INSPIRE website, but is equivalent to it.
ainspire needs the following Python libraries:
- alp (https://github.com/phyllisstein/alp) for communicating with Alfred
- pyinspire (https://bitbucket.org/ihuston/pyinspire/) for performing searches on INSPIRE
- bs4 (http://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/) because pyinspire needs it
- bibtexparser (https://pypi.python.org/pypi/bibtexparser) for parsing BibTeX
If you check out the source from Git, you need to include these libaries in the ainspire
directory root in order obtain a working Alfred workflow. When you download the workflow from
the releases page, this is not necessary.
WTFPL, of course.