On 02/18/09 09:29, "Douglas Stebila" <[email protected]> wrote:

> Is there a standard, simple way to write and install methods for
> BibDesk to import citations from Safari/Firefox?

The short answer is no.  A few sites are supported in the Web group that
Christiaan mentioned, but there's no way for users to write plugins that tie
into that group.

> Here's the scenario I'm thinking of.  Users are browsing the web in
> Safari or Firefox and they come across a paper on a major site (arXiv,
> Springer, IEEE, etc.) for which they'd like to import the citation
> into BibDesk. 

If you're using Firefox, you might be interested in this:
http://www.mackerron.com/.  It uses Zotero's scrapers to push references to
BibDesk.

> I've actually written such an extensible framework entirely in
> AppleScript that has importer scripts for websites that I use (arXiv,
> IEEE, ACM, Springer), so if you want to see what I mean a temporary
> version is available for download at
> http://www.douglas.stebila.ca/files/code/bibdesk/Importers-0.9.2.zip
> I'd be happy to contribute to developing part of this if people think
> it should be added to BibDesk, but I'm not a very good Objective-C
> coder.

I think you have some good ideas in your framework; thanks for posting that!

-- 
Adam



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