[Jabref-users] Presenting: Google Scholar Fetcher

[Nicolas <go...@go...>]

Hi List,

I have written a Google Scholar fetcher for JabRef (Web Search menu).
You can use it just like any other fetcher.

The entered search query is directly given to google, and the result
page is parsed basically for the BibTex links. Then all the BibTex
links are downloaded and the BibTex entries are added to JabRef's
search dialog. So your BibTex entry will have everything Google shows
in their BibTex file, plus the link to the paper, as provided in
Googles HTML results page. There are a few different formats of search
results in scholar (such as book, citation, and a normal paper). Some
of them are ignored by the fetcher or not properly imported. The
number of search results shown is defined in the .java file.

The importer identifies itself to Google as JabRef. So if they want
to, they can lock us out.

The Code is not yet checked in. You can download it, including a
runable JAR file based on the 2.4 beta, from:
http://sites.google.com/site/gohuju/Home/JabRef-2.4b2_mod.zip
(temporarily). It is really alpha state, but it seems to work.
Currently, a lot of debug output is produced, which is very helpful to
trace problems. Run JabRef from a console to see the debug output:
Something like "java -jar jabref.jar".

Cheers,
Nicolas