Deprecation notice: DO NOT USE THIS CODE ANYMORE. This code is not being maintained. It has been updated and packaged into a new tool called paperfetcher, with many more features, tests, and documentation. Use paperfetcher instead of this code.

Crossref Data Extraction Tool

A simple tool to fetch citations using the Crossref REST API.

Refer to Crossref REST API documentation at https://github.com/CrossRef/rest-api-doc.

Requirements

• python 3
• tqdm (optional; for neat progress bars in console/GUI)

Contents

• Libary functions (in crm_lib.py)
• Usage examples (in crm_examples.py)
• Script to fetch all works from a journal (fetch_all_journal_works.py)

Edit parameters in fetch_all_journal_works.py to customize the script for a specific search.

Usage:

• Before running any scripts, set the value of the POLITE_MAILTO constant in crm_lib.py to your email address.

• To use the library functions in a Python script (must be in the same directory as crm_lib.py)

import crm_lib

• To run examples from console:

python crm_lib_examples.py

• To fetch all works from a journal after applying filters:

python fetch_all_journal_works.py