google-books-citation
Create Terminals wiki citation from google books URL
Science Score: 18.0%
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✓CITATION.cff file
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○codemeta.json file
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○.zenodo.json file
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○DOI references
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○Academic publication links
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○JOSS paper metadata
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○Scientific vocabulary similarity
Low similarity (6.1%) to scientific vocabulary
Repository
Create Terminals wiki citation from google books URL
Basic Info
- Host: GitHub
- Owner: LegalizeAdulthood
- Language: JavaScript
- Default Branch: master
- Size: 1.4 MB
Statistics
- Stars: 0
- Watchers: 2
- Forks: 0
- Open Issues: 0
- Releases: 0
Metadata Files
README.md
This is a simple nodejs script to take a google books URL and emit a google books citation template that is suitable for use in the Terminals Wiki. Example:
```
node citation.js "http://books.google.com/books?id=n5qBImUV6NQC&lpg=PA63-IA15&pg=PA63-IA15#v=onepage&q&f=false" {{Computerworld | id=n5qBImUV6NQC | page_prefix=PA63-IA | page=15 | title= | date=September 23, 1985 }} ```
Note that the URL must be quoted if copy/pasted from the browser as it will contain the query character ? which is a shell metacharacter.
The script fetches the URL and uses it to identify the publication name (Computerworld), the page number (15) and the date (September 23, 1985). It can't identify the appropriate article title, so it leaves that blank and this must be filled in manually.
On Windows, it can be handy to simply feed the output of the script into clip to get the output onto the clipboard. The provided batch file cite.bat is a convenience that runs node with the given url and pipes to clip.
Owner
- Name: Richard Thomson
- Login: LegalizeAdulthood
- Kind: user
- Location: Salt Lake City, UT
- Website: http://legalizeadulthood.wordpress.com
- Repositories: 137
- Profile: https://github.com/LegalizeAdulthood
Citation (citation.js)
var cheerio = require('cheerio');
var http = require('http');
var moment = require('moment');
var request = require('request');
var util = require('util');
function starts_with(text, prefix) {
return text.substring(0, prefix.length) === prefix;
}
function citation_text(citation) {
var text = '{{' + citation.publication,
parts = citation.url.replace(/^.*\?/, '').replace(/#.*$/, '').split('&');
for (var i = 0; i < parts.length; ++i) {
if (starts_with(parts[i], 'id=')) {
text += '\n| ' + parts[i];
} else if (starts_with(parts[i], 'pg=')) {
pieces = parts[i].match(/pg=(.+[^0-9])([0-9]+)$/);
if (pieces[1] !== 'PA') {
text += '\n| page_prefix=' + pieces[1];
}
text += '\n| page=' + pieces[2];
}
}
text += '\n| title=';
text += '\n| date=' + citation.date;
citation.text = text + '\n}}';
}
function citation_from_html(citation, callback) {
var $ = cheerio.load(citation.html),
publication = $('h1.gb-volume-title'),
date = $('span', publication);
citation.date = moment(date.text()).format('MMMM D, YYYY');
date.empty();
citation.publication = publication.text().trim();
delete citation.html;
citation_text(citation);
callback(null, citation);
}
function citation_from_url(url, callback) {
request(url,
function(err, res, data) {
if (err) {
callback(err);
} else {
citation_from_html({ url: url, html: data }, callback)
}
});
}
function main(args) {
citation_from_url(args[2], function(err, data) {
console.log(data.text);
});
}
main(process.argv);