Hi again, I have realised that some google scholar result links are relative urls - I'll work on additional changes to deal with that once I have finished this essay draft!
/Mark On Sat, Aug 16, 2008 at 5:48 PM, Mark Aufflick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, > > I just started using BibDesk (as I have just become a humanities > student and have to figure out all this Harvard referencing mumbo > jumbo!). > > It was frustrating me that the google scholar web importing didn't add > the url since I can often use one of the nifty applescripts to > automatically fetch the pdf from jstor etc. > > I'm not sure if goog have cleaned up their syntax since the parser was > first written, but it was fairly straightforward. Each result is in a > <p class="g"> and each such result has (potentially) one BibTex link > and also (potentially) a target url. The target url isn't always there > for eg. [Book] or [Citation] search results. > > So my change is that first the results are extracted, then each result > is parsed for the two components. This adds some overhead, but on my > G4 12" powerbook it doesn't seem too much different so I'm sure most > people will notice it even less. > > I have attached a preliminary patch to this email that works for me. I > need to tweak the error handling and would appreciate any feedback. > > Also - should I be asking for svn commit rights or does someone want > to commit it for me (once the error handling is done properly of > course). > > Mark. > > PS: thanks for the excellent program - it's going to save me a lot of time! > PPS: Sorry if the list eventually gets this twice - I used the wrong > email first time. > > -- > Mark Aufflick > contact info at http://mark.aufflick.com/about/contact > -- Mark Aufflick contact info at http://mark.aufflick.com/about/contact ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by the Moblin Your Move Developer's challenge Build the coolest Linux based applications with Moblin SDK & win great prizes Grand prize is a trip for two to an Open Source event anywhere in the world http://moblin-contest.org/redirect.php?banner_id=100&url=/ _______________________________________________ Bibdesk-develop mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bibdesk-develop
