Great! Thank you.

Best wishes

Danushka


From: Christiaan Hofman <[email protected]>
Reply to: For general discussion about using BibDesk 
<[email protected]>
Date: Sunday, 29 May 2022 at 17:33
To: BibDesk users list <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [Bibdesk-users] Adding arxiv papers with PDF into BibDesk

The PDF should be linked. However, it looks like they changed the format of the 
abstract pages, and they also made some HTML errors in them. Which makes that 
BibDesk does not recognizes them anymore, and it falls back to the DOI. The 
(search) list pages still work though.

This is fixed in tomorrow’s nightly build.

Christiaan


On 29 May 2022, at 16:50, Danushka Bollegala 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:

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]<mailto:[email protected]>>
Reply to: For general discussion about using BibDesk 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>
Date: Thursday, 26 May 2022 at 22:31
To: BibDesk users list 
<[email protected]<mailto:[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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