Thank you Christiaan for the quick and detailed help as always. I was able to download the script and modify it to work with python3 and get it to work again.
As for the webgroup approach, as you say I can import the bibtex entry for the paper and it shows two linked files. However, none of which is for the PDF (one is the abs page and the other is a doi link). So “download and replace” on those linked files are not downloading the PDF file unfortunately. This is not an issue for me as I have the firs approach working now. Danushka From: Christiaan Hofman <[email protected]> Reply to: For general discussion about using BibDesk <[email protected]> Date: Thursday, 26 May 2022 at 22:31 To: BibDesk users list <[email protected]> Subject: Re: [Bibdesk-users] Adding arxiv papers with PDF into BibDesk That scripts is a third party script, so it was never shipped with BibDesk. In fact, the script seems to be included in the script bundle you can download from the site you mentioned, so you should already have it. As you say, you can also use the web group. Indeed, it will not download the PDF *when searching*, as those are just potential items you *may* import, so it should not just pollute your file system with automatically downloaded (potentially large) files. However, you can easily download the PDF after importing from the detail window or the linked files pane. You can even tell BibDesk to do that automatically when importing (see the General preferences). Christiaan On 26 May 2022, at 18:20, Danushka Bollegala <[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote: I would like to add a paper that I find on arxiv (e.g. https://arxiv.org/abs/2205.09867) into BibDesk with the PDF file. How could I do that? I used to do this with https://earthlingsoft.net/ssp/arXivToBibDesk/ but I see that arXiv-to-bibtex.py that is called by that script is no longer being shipped with BibDesk, hence the script failing. If this python script it still available some where I could try to use it with this script. I know I can import arxiv papers via web groups but that still does not download the PDF. Thank you Danushka
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