Welcome to BibtexParser’s documentation!

Author:

François Boulogne, Olivier Mangin, Lucas Verney, and other contributors.

Source Code:

github.com project

Bugs:

github.com

Generated:

Feb 15, 2025

License:

LGPL v3 or BSD

Version:

1.4.3

BibtexParser is a python library to parse bibtex files. The code relies on pyparsing and is tested with unittests. BibtexParser is used in more than 1300 open-source repositories.

Contents:

• How to install and test?
  • How to install?
  • How to run the test suite?
• Tutorial
  • Step 0: Vocabulary
  • Step 1: Prepare a BibTeX file
  • Step 2: Parse it!
  • Step 3: Export
  • Step 4: Add salt and pepper
• bibtexparser: API
  • bibtexparser — Parsing and writing BibTeX files
  • bibtexparser.bibdatabase — The bibliographic database object
  • bibtexparser.bparser — Tune the default parser
  • bibtexparser.customization — Functions to customize records
  • bibtexparser.bwriter — Tune the default writer
  • bibtexparser.bibtexexpression — Parser’s core relying on pyparsing
• How to report a bug?
  • Steps
  • Logging module to understand failures
• Bibtex tips, conventions and unrelated projects
  • Format
  • Projects

Other projects

• http://pybtex.sourceforge.net/

• http://pybliographer.org/

• https://github.com/matthew-brett/babybib

Indices and tables

• Index

• Module Index

• Search Page