🫧 Paper2Bib

Type a paper title. Get clean BibTeX. Keep your references organized.

Paper2Bib (paper2bib) is a Python package and CLI that searches DBLP from paper titles and returns clean BibTeX entries.

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Why Paper2Bib

• Search DBLP directly from paper titles
• Generate BibTeX ready to copy or export
• Run batch conversion for large reading lists
• Keep consistent key naming across your references
• Use the same core engine from Web, CLI, Python, and HTTP API

Installation

pip install paper2bib

CLI Usage

Single title:

paper2bib "Attention Is All You Need"

Batch mode:

paper2bib --file titles.txt --preference venueFirst --output refs.bib

Web UI

Open the static pages directly:

Self-hosted local run:

1. Start backend API:

uvicorn dblp_bib.api:app --reload

2. Serve static frontend from repository root:

python3 -m http.server 8000

3. Open in browser:

http://localhost:8000/docs/

Python Usage

from dblp_bib import search_bibtex, batch_search_bibtex

single = search_bibtex("Attention Is All You Need", preference="venueFirst")
batch = batch_search_bibtex([
    "Attention Is All You Need",
    "BERT: Pre-training of Deep Bidirectional Transformers for Language Understanding",
], preference="venueFirst")

HTTP API

uvicorn dblp_bib.api:app --reload
curl http://127.0.0.1:8000/health

Project Layout

docs/         Web frontend (self-hosted static files)
dblp_bib/     Python package, CLI, FastAPI
pyproject.toml
setup.py

Acknowledgement

• If this project is useful to you, please give it a Star.
• New feature ideas and pull requests are welcome.