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Other Applications
This is a list of other applications that can extend BibDesk's functionality. These applications are written by BibDesk users; for further discussion or to announce that you have posted a new application here, use the BibDesk-users mailing list.
- Conan Albrecht's BibDeskToWord, a plugin application for coupling BibDesk with Microsoft Word 2004/2008. There is a fork by James Ackerman on GitHub for Microsoft Word 2011. It uses standard BibDesk templates for formatting citations and bibliographies in many different reference styles, such as APA, numbered references, and Author-Year. Citation formatting is reversible. See also the alternatives to this plugin listed at Using BibDesk Citations in Editors and Word Processors and Applescripts for Integration with External Editors.
- George MacKerron's Zot2Bib add-on for Zotero, combined with one of Zotero's web browser add-ons, enables a BibDesk user to do one-click importing of publications from an external web browser into BibDesk from a wide range of websites. See also further description of Zotero and BibDesk at Zotero as an intermediary.
- Hook, a Mac app that manages bidirectional links between documents and other resources, comes with built-in Hook integration for BibDesk publications since March 2021.
Access through Distributed Objects
Other Cocoa applications can access BibDesk through Distributed Objects in BibDesk 1.3.0. Include the Completion Server Protocol header file in your applications source code to allow fetching completions from the BibDesk server.
BibDesk searches the citekey, author/editor, title, and keywords for the given search term, so the list of matches can be fairly long. However, it's also fast, and has the advantage of BibDesk's parsing and processing beforehand. The objects provided by the completion protocol are KVC-compliant for (at least) the keys citeKey, title, numberOfNames, sortableName, lastName, and year. All values are NSStrings except the year and numberOfNames, which are NSNumbers.
BibDesk completions in TextMate
A functional example program that provides a list of completion terms in TextMate is available as binary (Completion.zip) or source code (BibDeskTMCompletionsSource.zip). It also has the capability of recursively searching for TeX files based on passed-in arguments, parsing them for bibliography commands and automatically opening the files in BibDesk. After building the list of citations, it is dumped to standard output as an XML property list for display in TextMate.
RSSToBibTeX : RSS Script Groups
Script groups can be used to automatically download citations from an RSS feed, for example from PubMed's RSS feeds. What you need is a utility that reads the RSS feed and converts it to BibTeX. RSSToBibTeX is a utility that can do this. This source code for this utility is available. It also contains the binaries. You can add your custom parsing to this code as appropriate to get proper bibtex.
To use it, save the RSSToBibTeX binary, add a new search group, set the script path to the path to this utility, an set the arguments to one or more RSS feed URLs. Add "--pubmed" as the first argument if the feed contains PubMed style authors (like in "Lastname FM").