The download command (in the comments line) should download the linked URL and
that as a linked file. This is of course not immediate. Doesn’t that work for
you? Is the URL you get correct?
Christiaan
> On 27 Oct 2019, at 00:26, Danushka Bollegala <danushka.bolleg...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>
> Thank you for the quick response. There was a small bug in the script where
> the function “fixURL” was called as “fixedURL” within the “using terms
> BibDesk” routine.
> Fixing this and adding this as an import Publication script hook solved the
> issue. I am copying my script for future reference below.
> One thing that I wondered was the commented out line "download linked URL 1
> --with replace"
> Uncommenting this did not make any difference. What would be the syntax to
> download the converted pdf url and link it to the bib entry?
>
>
>
> property theURLPrefixes : {"https://www.aclweb.org/anthology/
> <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 fixURL(theURL)
> if (theURL is not theFixedURL) then
> set value of field "Url" to
> theFixedURL
> end if
> if (count of linked URLs) > 0 then
> set theURL to linked URL 1
> set theFixedURL to my
> fixURL(theURL)
> if (theURL is not theFixedURL)
> then
> remove theFixedURL
> add theFixedURL 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
>
> Best wishes
>
> 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
>
>
>
>
>> On 26 Oct 2019, at 22:09, Christiaan Hofman <cmhof...@gmail.com
>> <mailto:cmhof...@gmail.com>> wrote:
>>
>> It should be the Import Publication script hook. How do you add the citation?
>>
>> Christiaan
>>
>>> On 26 Oct 2019, at 22:53, Danushka Bollegala <danushka.bolleg...@gmail.com
>>> <mailto:danushka.bolleg...@gmail.com>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Thank you Christian for the script.
>>>
>>> In order to run this script when I copy a bibtex entry from the
>>> aclanthology to bibdesk, to which script hook should I assign it?
>>> I tried assigning it to “Import publication” hook but that does not seem to
>>> get invoked.
>>> If you could kindly clarify how to get the script associated and running
>>> that would be great.
>>>
>>> Thanks in advance
>>>
>>> Danushka
>>>
>>>
>>>> On 26 Oct 2019, at 14:54, Christiaan Hofman <cmhof...@gmail.com
>>>> <mailto:cmhof...@gmail.com>> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Here’s an example of such a script hook:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> On 26 Oct 2019, at 15:28, Christiaan Hofman <cmhof...@gmail.com
>>>>> <mailto: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/
>>>> <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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