Thank you for your answer Christiaan. On 15 Mar 2008, at 18:41, Christiaan Hofman wrote:
> This does not look like something that could be put into a search > group. Those work for services that have a query syntax that returns > machine-parseable bibliography info (AOT human readable pages). This > looks more like something for a web group scraper, similar to what we > have for google-scholar. Right, but what type of services does it work for? I mean, what type of queries must be supported, what type of results must be given back? Isn't it possible to create a class that emulates whatever protocol BibDesk wants to use? In my initial email, I wanted to stress that, even though the results are indeed human readable pages, that does not oppose to being (easily) machine parseable (the presentation is really simple and straightforward so that parsing the html result can give accurate results). > Of course you can add this as a feature request. But whether it will > be implemented depends wholly on anyone wanting to take it on, and > chances for that are pretty low ATM. > > Unless of course you (or anyone else) want to take a shot at it > yourself, we're happy to assist ;-) You could take our Google Scholar > scraper as a starting point. Currently we don't have an SDK to add > define new web group plugins. Adam was talking about it, and I do > think it would be cool to have. But I don't think it is very difficult > to write code directly for a scraper, compare > <https://bibdesk.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/bibdesk/trunk/bibdesk/BDSKGoogleScholarParser.m Thank you for this reference, I'll give a shot. But I am afraid my knowledge of Objective-C is mainly theoretical (I never developed a real life project in ObjC). I definitely could develop this in Java in a couple of time, but I will look at the Google scraper. However, as I said, I still prefer the search group option, in terms of integration, and I still don't understand what technical reasons would prevent us from going for this option. A ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Microsoft Defy all challenges. Microsoft(R) Visual Studio 2008. http://clk.atdmt.com/MRT/go/vse0120000070mrt/direct/01/ _______________________________________________ Bibdesk-develop mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bibdesk-develop
