Here’s an example of such a script hook:
> On 26 Oct 2019, at 15:28, Christiaan Hofman <cmhof...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > >> On 25 Oct 2019, at 23:44, Christiaan Hofman <cmhof...@gmail.com >> <mailto:cmhof...@gmail.com>> wrote: >> >> >> >>> On 25 Oct 2019, at 23:14, Danushka Bollegala <danushka.bolleg...@gmail.com >>> <mailto:danushka.bolleg...@gmail.com>> wrote: >>> >>> Thank you for developing BibDesk which is an essential component of my >>> research workflow! >>> >>> I use acl anthology for importing papers into bibdesk. The Url field in the >>> BibText in acl anthology does not contain .pdf extension. >>> For example, see https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/N18-2115/ >>> <https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/N18-2115/> >>> for which the bibtex entry contains >>> url = "https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/N18-2115 >>> <https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/N18-2115>” >>> Unfortunately, this gets mapped to the Url field in Bibdesk and I cannot >>> download the pdf but the top page by “Download Urls” menu. >>> Is there a way (for example a script hook etc.) that would let me >>> automatically append .pdf to the url field when a bibtex entry is copied to >>> BibDesk? >>> Thank you >>> Danushka >>> ______________________________ >>> Prof. Danushka Bollegala >>> Head of Data Mining and Machine Learning >>> Department of Computer Science >>> University of Liverpool >>> 224 Ashton Building >>> Ashton Street >>> Liverpool L69 3BX >>> >>> T +44 151 795 4283 >>> F +44 151 795 4235 >>> W danushka.net <http://danushka.net/> >>> E m...@danushka.net <mailto:m...@danushka.net> >>> T @Bollegala >>> >> >> >> Perhaps the Import Publications script hook could do that. How do you import >> the bibtex entries? And what is setting this URL field? >> >> Christiaan > > > Be aware that the Import Publications script hook comes after the conversion > of the Url field to a linked URL, so you probably also want to repoace the > linked URL from the script hook. Also if you want to automatically downoad > the URL, this would not be done in this case, so you should also do that from > the script hook. > > Christiaan > Here’s an example of such a script hook: property theURLPrefixes : {"https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/"} property thePDFExtension : ".pdf" on hasAnyPrefix(theString, thePrefixes) repeat with thePrefix in thePrefixes if theString starts with thePrefix then return true end repeat return false end hasAnyPrefix on fixURL(theURL) if (my hasAnyPrefix(theURL, theURLPrefixes) and theURL does not end with thePDFExtension) then if theURL ends with "/" then set theURL to text 1 thru -2 of theURL set theURL to theURL & thePDFExtension end if return theURL end fixURL using terms from application "BibDesk" on perform BibDesk action with publications thePubs for script hook theScriptHook tell application "BibDesk" repeat with thePub in thePubs tell contents of thePub set theURL to value of field "Url" set theFixedURL to my fixedURL(theURL) if (theURL is not theFixedURL) then set value of field "Url" to theURL & theExt end if if (count of linked URLs) > 0 then set theURL to linked URL 1 set theFixedURL to my fixedURL(theURL) if (theURL is not theFixedURL) then remove theURL add theURL to beginning of linked URLs --download linked URL 1 --with replace end if end if end tell end repeat end tell end perform BibDesk action with publications end using terms from hth, Christiaan
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