Re: [Bibdesk-users] How to use Web Groups (Google Scholar)?

2007-11-16 Thread Christiaan Hofman

On 16 Nov 2007, at 2:17 PM, Matthias Damm wrote:


 Am 11.11.2007 um 04:57 schrieb Adam R. Maxwell:

 This build makes much more sense to me, since the Web group is now
 functional. It seems perfectly stable to me too.

 I guess the bookmarks stuff needs more testing, based on Christiaan's
 comment...


 I have been trying out the Web Groups feature lately, and I find it
 absolutely amazing.

 However I think it does not work properly sometimes:

 The problem I have seen is that sometimes the list of the Import
 links is not updated properly.
 When this happens, the list stays as it is even if I switch to the
 next page of Google Scholar results, do another search or open another
 page. Only restarting BibDesk makes the search useable again. This
 does not happen always, sometimes everything works as expected. This
 might not be a very helpful error description, but I don't know what
 other info I could give? (I'm running 10.5.1 on an Intel Macbook,
 problem exists with the latest stable release and with the latest
 nightly.)


It should be able to recursively add new items when you reload a  
single frame. Is anything reported in the logs in Console?

 I also have a couple of feature requests:
 - It was great if you could save a web group with a fixed start page,
 for example a web group that always starts with Google Scholar.


I don't feel like adding a new pref for that and it should be pretty  
easy now with the bookmarks.

 Some options on what happens after an item is imported could also be a
 nice improvement:
 - It was nice if the item was opened after import, just like the
 option for items imported via dragging.

We disabled that, and we won't do more special-special handling in  
this case. Not editing allows you to keep with the web group. There  
are good reasons to do that. You can easily find the items you added  
from the web group in the Last Import group.

 - It was also helpful if there was an option to automatically re-
 generate the cite key for imported items.

If you auto-generate the cite key that will happen automatically.  
Otherwise you can go to Last Import and use the menu item in the  
Publication menu.

 - Perhaps it could also be useful if a list of fields could be
 specified that should never be imported.


I don't feel like adding a new pref for that.

 Nevertheless the web import is one of the greatest improvements to
 BibDesk ever. Thanks a lot!

 Best regards,
 Matthias

You're welcome,
Christiaan



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Re: [Bibdesk-users] How to use Web Groups (Google Scholar)?

2007-11-16 Thread Matthias Damm

Am 16.11.2007 um 14:35 schrieb Christiaan Hofman:
 The problem I have seen is that sometimes the list of the Import
 links is not updated properly.
 When this happens, the list stays as it is even if I switch to the
 next page of Google Scholar results, do another search or open  
 another
 page. Only restarting BibDesk makes the search useable again. This
 does not happen always, sometimes everything works as expected. This
 might not be a very helpful error description, but I don't know what
 other info I could give? (I'm running 10.5.1 on an Intel Macbook,
 problem exists with the latest stable release and with the latest
 nightly.)


 It should be able to recursively add new items when you reload a
 single frame. Is anything reported in the logs in Console?

The only message from BibDesk there is

16.11.07 15:04:54 BibDesk[2978] Application will quit without  
finishing writing metadata cache.

But that seems to happen every time I quit BD after I changed  
something in my file.

 I also have a couple of feature requests:
 - It was great if you could save a web group with a fixed start page,
 for example a web group that always starts with Google Scholar.


 I don't feel like adding a new pref for that and it should be pretty
 easy now with the bookmarks.

O.k.
Speaking of bookmarks: Shouldn't the bookmarked page load when a  
bookmark is selected but the Web panel is not open? When I select a  
bookmark the Web panel is opened, but the URL is not loaded. Only when  
I select the Bookmark again, it is loaded.

 Some options on what happens after an item is imported could also  
 be a
 nice improvement:
 - It was nice if the item was opened after import, just like the
 option for items imported via dragging.

 We disabled that, and we won't do more special-special handling in
 this case. Not editing allows you to keep with the web group. There
 are good reasons to do that. You can easily find the items you added
 from the web group in the Last Import group.

Would I have to leave the Web group if just the edit window for the  
new item was opened?

 - It was also helpful if there was an option to automatically re-
 generate the cite key for imported items.

 If you auto-generate the cite key that will happen automatically.
 Otherwise you can go to Last Import and use the menu item in the
 Publication menu.

That doesn't work for me:
The new items keep the cite key the got from Google Scholar.

Thanks for the comments,
best regards

Matthias

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Re: [Bibdesk-users] How to use Web Groups (Google Scholar)?

2007-11-15 Thread Michael McCracken
On 11/12/07, James Owen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 First, just wanted to say that I am , once again, astounded at the
 activity on the BibDesk list, and the speed
 at which new features are proposed, created, constructively
 criticised, rejigged, and digested into a stable part of this program.
 I can hardly keep up.

I have the same feeling - I certainly can't keep up!
I'm just poking through the list for the first time in a while and
when I saw this I thought it might be interesting to note that at
least in terms of the web group features, I've been wanting to do this
feature for years, started writing some of the code for it in November
2006, and first tossed it into the main BibDesk code in January this
year.

That said, the subsequent velocity of improvements to make it actually
usable is always surprising, even though I know very well how fast
Christiaan and Adam get things done.

-mike

 BTW, if I try to open a .bib file using QuickLook, I get the raw
 bibtex text, as might be expected. Is there any way to have a preview of
 the database as a list of refs in the default preview format? I read
 that there is a QuickLook plugin for BibDesk, but I don't know what it
 does.

 How does QuickLook work? I get the impression that it is effectively a
 print preview, i.e. a small pdf version of each file, which is stored
 with
 the file, and which can therefore be opened without the use of the
 original program. Is that right?
 If so, would it be possible to have a button, Create Preview as
 appears in the Keynote save as dialog box, which would allow to make a
 pdf
 version of a bib file, which would be shown when accessed via QuickLook?



 On Nov 11, 2007, at 1:44 PM, Hendrik wrote:

  Another question related to Google Scholar:
  So now we have a one button click way of getting the Google Scholar
  entry into BibDesk. Which is awesome.
  What is the easiest way currently to get from there to the PDF and get
  that filed away using the amazing auto file feature? Are there plans
  to maybe fully or partially automate this? That is, to have another
  button click download the PDF file using the first actually working
  link in Google Scholar and file it away.

 Yes, I hit this question last week trying to get stuff from Google
 Scholar. How to associate
 the PDF of the paper that you have found, with the BibDesk ref that
 has been scraped.

 The only way I can think of is for the scraper to find PDF links,
 which would then be added to the
 BibDesk ref as a URL, or else to include the link from Google to the
 journal page as a URL, so that
 if this URL is clicked on, BibDesk knows which link has been pursued,
 and hence which reference to associate
 with which downloaded PDF.
 BibDesk would also have to keep a watch on the downloads folder, and
 either have some way to autofile directly, or more likely
 to open the PDF so that it can be manually dragged to the right ref,
 and hence autofiled.



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Re: [Bibdesk-users] How to use Web Groups (Google Scholar)?

2007-11-12 Thread James Owen

First, just wanted to say that I am , once again, astounded at the  
activity on the BibDesk list, and the speed
at which new features are proposed, created, constructively  
criticised, rejigged, and digested into a stable part of this program.
I can hardly keep up.

BTW, if I try to open a .bib file using QuickLook, I get the raw  
bibtex text, as might be expected. Is there any way to have a preview of
the database as a list of refs in the default preview format? I read  
that there is a QuickLook plugin for BibDesk, but I don't know what it  
does.

How does QuickLook work? I get the impression that it is effectively a  
print preview, i.e. a small pdf version of each file, which is stored  
with
the file, and which can therefore be opened without the use of the  
original program. Is that right?
If so, would it be possible to have a button, Create Preview as  
appears in the Keynote save as dialog box, which would allow to make a  
pdf
version of a bib file, which would be shown when accessed via QuickLook?



On Nov 11, 2007, at 1:44 PM, Hendrik wrote:

 Another question related to Google Scholar:
 So now we have a one button click way of getting the Google Scholar
 entry into BibDesk. Which is awesome.
 What is the easiest way currently to get from there to the PDF and get
 that filed away using the amazing auto file feature? Are there plans
 to maybe fully or partially automate this? That is, to have another
 button click download the PDF file using the first actually working
 link in Google Scholar and file it away.

Yes, I hit this question last week trying to get stuff from Google  
Scholar. How to associate
the PDF of the paper that you have found, with the BibDesk ref that  
has been scraped.

The only way I can think of is for the scraper to find PDF links,  
which would then be added to the
BibDesk ref as a URL, or else to include the link from Google to the  
journal page as a URL, so that
if this URL is clicked on, BibDesk knows which link has been pursued,  
and hence which reference to associate
with which downloaded PDF.
BibDesk would also have to keep a watch on the downloads folder, and  
either have some way to autofile directly, or more likely
to open the PDF so that it can be manually dragged to the right ref,  
and hence autofiled.



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Re: [Bibdesk-users] How to use Web Groups (Google Scholar)?

2007-11-12 Thread Adam M. Goldstein
On Nov 12, 2007, at 3:21 AM, James Owen wrote:

snip


 BTW, if I try to open a .bib file using QuickLook, I get the raw
 bibtex text, as might be expected. Is there any way to have a  
 preview of
 the database as a list of refs in the default preview format? I read
 that there is a QuickLook plugin for BibDesk, but I don't know what it
 does.



snip

I can answer this one, so here goes:

The .bib file looks good in Quicklook because you get syntax coloring  
in the preview; but the really useful thing is to be able to see each  
record. The easiest way to do this is to do a finder search for  
something that you know you have a record for, and then when it comes  
up as a search result, choose Quicklook at the method of viewing the  
results, and you'll get a little note card with some basic bib info on  
it.

If you download the latest release of BD, you should have the  
Quicklook plugin already installed. If you already installed it  
yourself, you have to remove it; Adam M. already gave instructions for  
this a few days ago on the list, and I forget how to do it, but it  
does work, and you have to go back and look there to see what to do.

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Re: [Bibdesk-users] How to use Web Groups (Google Scholar)?

2007-11-11 Thread Hendrik
Another question related to Google Scholar:
So now we have a one button click way of getting the Google Scholar
entry into BibDesk. Which is awesome.
What is the easiest way currently to get from there to the PDF and get
that filed away using the amazing auto file feature? Are there plans
to maybe fully or partially automate this? That is, to have another
button click download the PDF file using the first actually working
link in Google Scholar and file it away.

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Re: [Bibdesk-users] How to use Web Groups (Google Scholar)?

2007-11-10 Thread Simon Spiegel

On 10.11.2007, at 03:20, Adam R. Maxwell wrote:


 On Nov 9, 2007, at 3:15 PM, François Briatte wrote:

 They are not persistent here either (1.3.11, v929).

 How about a preference to set the home page  for Web group?

 Try the next nightly build; there's a dedicated bookmarks main menu.

Something I noticed which no one seems to have mentioned yet: For  
some reason Google Scholar always gives the title in double curly  
parantheses, so that BibDesk ends importing. For example:


@article{delany1970apf,
Author = {Delany, ME and Bazley, EN},
Date-Added = {2007-11-10 08:57:42 +0100},
Date-Modified = {2007-11-10 08:57:42 +0100},
Journal = {Applied Acoustics},
Number = {2},
Pages = {105--116},
Title = {{Acoustical properties of fibrous absorbent materials}},
Volume = {3},
Year = {1970}}

I realize that this an error on Google's side, but maybe such cases  
could be handled by the importer in general. I can't really think of  
a situations where one wants to have double parantheses.

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Re: [Bibdesk-users] How to use Web Groups (Google Scholar)?

2007-11-10 Thread Hendrik

 Something I noticed which no one seems to have mentioned yet: For
 some reason Google Scholar always gives the title in double curly
 parantheses, so that BibDesk ends importing. For example:


 @article{delany1970apf,
   Author = {Delany, ME and Bazley, EN},
   Date-Added = {2007-11-10 08:57:42 +0100},
   Date-Modified = {2007-11-10 08:57:42 +0100},
   Journal = {Applied Acoustics},
   Number = {2},
   Pages = {105--116},
   Title = {{Acoustical properties of fibrous absorbent materials}},
   Volume = {3},
   Year = {1970}}

 I realize that this an error on Google's side, but maybe such cases
 could be handled by the importer in general. I can't really think of
 a situations where one wants to have double parantheses.


The double braces tell LaTeX to preserve the capitalization. So if the  
title in Google Scholar is capitalized correctly it will be correct in  
your references.
While this can be useful, I personally would also prefer it if the  
BibDesk Scholar scraper would strip the extra set of braces.

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Re: [Bibdesk-users] How to use Web Groups (Google Scholar)?

2007-11-10 Thread Simon Spiegel

On 10.11.2007, at 09:55, Hendrik wrote:


 Something I noticed which no one seems to have mentioned yet: For
 some reason Google Scholar always gives the title in double curly
 parantheses, so that BibDesk ends importing. For example:


 @article{delany1970apf,
  Author = {Delany, ME and Bazley, EN},
  Date-Added = {2007-11-10 08:57:42 +0100},
  Date-Modified = {2007-11-10 08:57:42 +0100},
  Journal = {Applied Acoustics},
  Number = {2},
  Pages = {105--116},
  Title = {{Acoustical properties of fibrous absorbent materials}},
  Volume = {3},
  Year = {1970}}

 I realize that this an error on Google's side, but maybe such cases
 could be handled by the importer in general. I can't really think of
 a situations where one wants to have double parantheses.


 The double braces tell LaTeX to preserve the capitalization. So if the
 title in Google Scholar is capitalized correctly it will be correct in
 your references.

Yeah, well, but in this case they're not capitalized correctly (at  
least according to the rules I know about capitalization of titles in  
English).

 While this can be useful, I personally would also prefer it if the
 BibDesk Scholar scraper would strip the extra set of braces.

Anyone against this?

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Re: [Bibdesk-users] How to use Web Groups (Google Scholar)?

2007-11-10 Thread Adam M. Goldstein
On Nov 10, 2007, at 4:10 AM, Simon Spiegel wrote:


 On 10.11.2007, at 09:55, Hendrik wrote:


 Something I noticed which no one seems to have mentioned yet: For
 some reason Google Scholar always gives the title in double curly
 parantheses, so that BibDesk ends importing. For example:


 @article{delany1970apf,
 Author = {Delany, ME and Bazley, EN},
 Date-Added = {2007-11-10 08:57:42 +0100},
 Date-Modified = {2007-11-10 08:57:42 +0100},
 Journal = {Applied Acoustics},
 Number = {2},
 Pages = {105--116},
 Title = {{Acoustical properties of fibrous absorbent materials}},
 Volume = {3},
 Year = {1970}}

 I realize that this an error on Google's side, but maybe such cases
 could be handled by the importer in general. I can't really think of
 a situations where one wants to have double parantheses.


 The double braces tell LaTeX to preserve the capitalization. So if  
 the
 title in Google Scholar is capitalized correctly it will be correct  
 in
 your references.

 Yeah, well, but in this case they're not capitalized correctly (at
 least according to the rules I know about capitalization of titles in
 English).

 While this can be useful, I personally would also prefer it if the
 BibDesk Scholar scraper would strip the extra set of braces.

 Anyone against this?


I am for it, if it means that this effectively ends the record. But  
does it?

Regarding capitalization, I pretty much ignore whatever comes in, and  
let the .bst file take care of it. My needs for caps change depending  
on what the output is supposed to be.

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Re: [Bibdesk-users] How to use Web Groups (Google Scholar)?

2007-11-10 Thread Justin C. Walker

On Nov 10, 2007, at 10:16 , Adam R. Maxwell wrote:


 On Nov 10, 2007, at 9:48 AM, Alexander H. Montgomery wrote:

 While this can be useful, I personally would also prefer it if the
 BibDesk Scholar scraper would strip the extra set of braces.

 Anyone against this?


 I am for it, if it means that this effectively ends the record. But
 does it?

 Regarding capitalization, I pretty much ignore whatever comes in,  
 and
 let the .bst file take care of it. My needs for caps change  
 depending
 on what the output is supposed to be.

 -Adam G.

 Brackets are supposed to be used to force capitalization of things
 that bst files can't know about; i.e., proper nouns and acronyms. So
 I'm in favor of removing this from Google Scholar; I don't know if
 this can be done in a non-hacky way.

 Try the next nightly build.  If the title has surrounding { and }
 braces, they're removed if it doesn't cause a brace error.

I'm puzzled: since the braces are legit (perhaps Google puts the  
extra set there to keep the title the way they got it?), why remove  
them?  I assume I'm missing something, but...

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Re: [Bibdesk-users] How to use Web Groups (Google Scholar)?

2007-11-10 Thread François Briatte
Thanks for the advice

This build makes much more sense to me, since the Web group is now
functional. It seems perfectly stable to me too.

If questions continue to flow on the Web group function, maybe it
would be a good idea to quickly announce a new version. This may
contradict your current versioning policy, of which I am totally
ignorant.

On 10/11/2007, Adam R. Maxwell [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 On Nov 9, 2007, at 3:15 PM, François Briatte wrote:

  They are not persistent here either (1.3.11, v929).
 
  How about a preference to set the home page  for Web group?

 Try the next nightly build; there's a dedicated bookmarks main menu.

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Re: [Bibdesk-users] How to use Web Groups (Google Scholar)?

2007-11-10 Thread Adam R. Maxwell

On Nov 10, 2007, at 11:59 AM, Justin C. Walker wrote:


 On Nov 10, 2007, at 10:16 , Adam R. Maxwell wrote:


 On Nov 10, 2007, at 9:48 AM, Alexander H. Montgomery wrote:

 While this can be useful, I personally would also prefer it if  
 the
 BibDesk Scholar scraper would strip the extra set of braces.

 Anyone against this?


 I am for it, if it means that this effectively ends the record. But
 does it?

 Regarding capitalization, I pretty much ignore whatever comes in,
 and
 let the .bst file take care of it. My needs for caps change
 depending
 on what the output is supposed to be.

 -Adam G.

 Brackets are supposed to be used to force capitalization of things
 that bst files can't know about; i.e., proper nouns and acronyms. So
 I'm in favor of removing this from Google Scholar; I don't know if
 this can be done in a non-hacky way.

 Try the next nightly build.  If the title has surrounding { and }
 braces, they're removed if it doesn't cause a brace error.

 I'm puzzled: since the braces are legit (perhaps Google puts the
 extra set there to keep the title the way they got it?), why remove
 them?  I assume I'm missing something, but...

They're not always correct, though, unfortunately.  It's generally  
better to let the .bst handle capitalization issues, as Alex said,  
rather than force it in the database.  The records I've seen from  
Google Scholar are a mix of title case, sentence case, and all caps.

-- 
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Re: [Bibdesk-users] How to use Web Groups (Google Scholar)?

2007-11-10 Thread Hendrik


 I'm puzzled: since the braces are legit (perhaps Google puts the
 extra set there to keep the title the way they got it?), why remove
 them?  I assume I'm missing something, but...

 They're not always correct, though, unfortunately.  It's generally
 better to let the .bst handle capitalization issues, as Alex said,
 rather than force it in the database.  The records I've seen from
 Google Scholar are a mix of title case, sentence case, and all caps.

That's been my experience too. Capitalization in Google Scholar  
currently seems too random overall to rely on it.
Letting BibTeX take care of the capitalization is definitely better at  
this point.
I typically go through my references just before publishing papers to  
fix capitalization for names and such.
For example: Stochastic relaxation, {G}ibbs distributions and the  
{B}ayesian restoration of images.
The .bst file will not do that for you.


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Re: [Bibdesk-users] How to use Web Groups (Google Scholar)?

2007-11-10 Thread Adam R. Maxwell

On Nov 10, 2007, at 12:11 PM, François Briatte wrote:

 Thanks for the advice

 This build makes much more sense to me, since the Web group is now
 functional. It seems perfectly stable to me too.

I guess the bookmarks stuff needs more testing, based on Christiaan's  
comment...

 If questions continue to flow on the Web group function, maybe it
 would be a good idea to quickly announce a new version.

I agree...we've fixed a number of rather important bugs in it.

 This may
 contradict your current versioning policy, of which I am totally
 ignorant.

There is no policy.  I try to do a release about once a month, but it  
also depends on how many changes we've made and how well they've been  
tested.  You wouldn't believe how many people whine if releases are  
too frequent...

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 On Nov 9, 2007, at 3:15 PM, François Briatte wrote:

 They are not persistent here either (1.3.11, v929).

 How about a preference to set the home page  for Web group?

 Try the next nightly build; there's a dedicated bookmarks main menu.

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Re: [Bibdesk-users] How to use Web Groups (Google Scholar)?

2007-11-09 Thread Bertolt Meyer
Hendrik,

try this:

 In the web group page view:

 1. Go to scholar.google.com
 2. Click Scholar preferences
 3. Set Interface language to English
 4. Set Bibliography Manager to Show links to import citations
 into BibTeX (choose BibTeX from the popup menu)

If you do a scholar search from the web group interface after those  
changes have been made, the results should show up as importable items  
in the pane below.

Cheers,
Bertolt

Am 09.11.2007 um 09:58 schrieb Hendrik:

 I was very excited to see the release notes mention import from Google
 Scholar. Using a feature called 'Web Group'.
 I found the 'web' group in the side pane. I get the 3 pane view. I
 went to Google Scholar, did a search. But nothing appears in the panes
 below. I tried ACM library as well. Again I could not get anything to
 show up below. Am I missing a button somewhere that I need to click? I
 tried drag and dropping links into the pane below. I followed the
 BibTex links in the Google Scholar results. Nothing. The panes remain
 empty.
 I looked in the BibDesk help pages but saw no mention of the Web Group
 feature. Checked the Wiki and asked Google but found no instructions
 anywhere on how to use this thing.
 Please someone enlighten me. I sounds like an incredibly useful
 feature. How do I use it?

 Thanks,
 Hendrik

 PS: I am running Leopard.

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Re: [Bibdesk-users] How to use Web Groups (Google Scholar)?

2007-11-09 Thread jiho

On 2007-November-09  , at 10:24 , Hendrik wrote:
 Hmm. Nevermind. After quitting, restarting and trying again it
 magically works now.

Same here.

 Very very cool.

 ... a minute later ...

 But then after switching to another group and coming back to the web
 group it stopped working again. Only quitting and restarting seemed to
 help.
 I guess it isn't all that stable yet?

Another quirk (in this otherwise very useful feature): when I change  
the prefs to search only english or french documents, I get Unable  
to parse bibtex for all records.

Lastly: is the UI for this meant to stay different from other  
searches or will these web scrapping searches be integrated along  
side others? It would seem more natural to me to access all these in  
a searches menu, with bookmarks common to all, even if the UI once  
the search is started is a bit different (three panes vs two panes).

Thanks a lot for this great feature, google scholar search is awesome.

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Re: [Bibdesk-users] How to use Web Groups (Google Scholar)?

2007-11-09 Thread Hendrik


On 9-Nov-07, at 1:05 AM, Bertolt Meyer bmeyer-at-sozpsy.uzh.ch | 
Sourceforge| wrote:



Hendrik,

try this:


In the web group page view:

1. Go to scholar.google.com
2. Click Scholar preferences
3. Set Interface language to English
4. Set Bibliography Manager to Show links to import citations
into BibTeX (choose BibTeX from the popup menu)


If you do a scholar search from the web group interface after those
changes have been made, the results should show up as importable items
in the pane below.



I did have those settings correct from the beginning. But as I wrote  
after restarting I did get it to work. However after trying a few  
successful queries (maybe 6-8 overall) Google now seems to have  
blocked me. I get this now:

We're sorry...

... but your query looks similar to automated requests from a computer  
virus or spyware application. To protect our users, we can't process  
your request right now.


We'll restore your access as quickly as possible, so try again soon.  
In the meantime, if you suspect that your computer or network has been  
infected, you might want to run a virus checker or spyware remover to  
make sure that your systems are free of viruses and other spurious  
software.


We apologize for the inconvenience, and hope we'll see you again on  
Google.




And answering the captcha below it doesn't help.
I guess Google does not like being scraped?

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Re: [Bibdesk-users] How to use Web Groups (Google Scholar)?

2007-11-09 Thread Christiaan Hofman
I've also seen that. It seems they block you when you're doing too  
many searches under some conditions. I wonder what those conditions  
are, so we could correct it. Perhaps they require some kind of HTTP  
headers, like originating application info?


Christiaan

On 9 Nov 2007, at 10:52 AM, Hendrik wrote:



On 9-Nov-07, at 1:05 AM, Bertolt Meyer bmeyer-at-sozpsy.uzh.ch | 
Sourceforge| wrote:



Hendrik,

try this:


In the web group page view:

1. Go to scholar.google.com
2. Click Scholar preferences
3. Set Interface language to English
4. Set Bibliography Manager to Show links to import citations
into BibTeX (choose BibTeX from the popup menu)


If you do a scholar search from the web group interface after those
changes have been made, the results should show up as importable  
items

in the pane below.



I did have those settings correct from the beginning. But as I  
wrote after restarting I did get it to work. However after trying a  
few successful queries (maybe 6-8 overall) Google now seems to have  
blocked me. I get this now:

We're sorry...

... but your query looks similar to automated requests from a  
computer virus or spyware application. To protect our users, we  
can't process your request right now.


We'll restore your access as quickly as possible, so try again  
soon. In the meantime, if you suspect that your computer or network  
has been infected, you might want to run a virus checker or spyware  
remover to make sure that your systems are free of viruses and  
other spurious software.


We apologize for the inconvenience, and hope we'll see you again on  
Google.




And answering the captcha below it doesn't help.
I guess Google does not like being scraped?

Hendrik




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Re: [Bibdesk-users] How to use Web Groups (Google Scholar)?

2007-11-09 Thread Adam R. Maxwell

On Nov 9, 2007, at 1:24 AM, Hendrik wrote:

 But then after switching to another group and coming back to the web
 group it stopped working again. Only quitting and restarting seemed to
 help.
 I guess it isn't all that stable yet?

Is anything logged in /Applications/Utilities/Console that might be  
relevant?  Others have reported this, but I haven't seen it.

thanks,
adam

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Re: [Bibdesk-users] How to use Web Groups (Google Scholar)?

2007-11-09 Thread Ingrid Giffin
This is fantastic.

Two questions:

1) Once I have completed a Google Scholar search, I see items showing up in
the BibDesk pane at the bottom. But when I click to the second page of the
search results, the BibDesk list does not change. Is there something I have
to do to get the second page's links to load?

2)  Is there some way to save URLs, such as the Google Scholar URL?

Thanks,
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Re: [Bibdesk-users] How to use Web Groups (Google Scholar)?

2007-11-09 Thread Alexander H. Montgomery
Another option to get this to work more consistently for users who  
haven't set their BibTeX preference in Google Scholar is to use the  
Related Links URL in each entry to craft a URL that leads to the  
BibTeX. For example, the related links for a piece might look like

http://scholar.google.com/scholar?num=100hl=enlr=client=firefoxq=related:O1sOP5RcQI0J:scholar.google.com/

while the BibTeX link looks like this:

http://scholar.google.com/scholar.bib?num=100hl=enlr=client=firefoxq=info:O1sOP5RcQI0J:scholar.google.com/output=citationoe=MACINTOSHoi=citation

As for decreasing the number of requests: My guess is that the scraper  
currently depends upon the BibTeX links, and would have to be  
rewritten to scrape the HTML directly (which is also usually a bad  
idea, since the format is usually subject to change)

-AHM

On Nov 9, 2007, at 12:30 PM, Hendrik wrote:

 It could just be the fast sequence of requests for the BibTeX  
 entries that triggers it. In which case it might make sense to  
 change the scraper to only request the pages with the BibTeX upon  
 request. That is, when the user clicks on items in the second pane.

 Hendrik

 On 9-Nov-07, at 2:54 AM, Christiaan Hofman cmhofman-at-gmail.com | 
 Sourceforge| wrote:

 I've also seen that. It seems they block you when you're doing too  
 many searches under some conditions. I wonder what those conditions  
 are, so we could correct it. Perhaps they require some kind of HTTP  
 headers, like originating application info?

 Christiaan

 On 9 Nov 2007, at 10:52 AM, Hendrik wrote:

 However after trying a few successful queries (maybe 6-8 overall)  
 Google now seems to have blocked me. I get this now:
 We're sorry...
 ... but your query looks similar to automated requests from a  
 computer virus or spyware application. To protect our users, we  
 can't process your request right now.

 We'll restore your access as quickly as possible, so try again  
 soon. In the meantime, if you suspect that your computer or  
 network has been infected, you might want to run a virus checker  
 or spyware remover to make sure that your systems are free of  
 viruses and other spurious software.

 We apologize for the inconvenience, and hope we'll see you again  
 on Google.



 And answering the captcha below it doesn't help.
 I guess Google does not like being scraped?

 Hendrik

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Re: [Bibdesk-users] How to use Web Groups (Google Scholar)?

2007-11-09 Thread François Briatte
They are not persistent here either (1.3.11, v929).

How about a preference to set the home page  for Web group?

Fr.

On 09/11/2007, Christiaan Hofman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

 On 9 Nov 2007, at 9:32 PM, Adam R. Maxwell wrote:

 
  On Friday, November 09, 2007, at 11:24AM, Christiaan Hofman
  [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
 
  I don't think the combo box updates when you add bookmarks. You'll
  have to reopen the document before they turn up. In  the next nightly
  build there will be far better support for bookmarks.
 
  That looks much nicer indeed!  If I add Google Scholar, the menu
  isn't populated after a quit/relaunch, though.  Are the bookmarks
  supposed to be per-document or something?
 
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Re: [Bibdesk-users] How to use Web Groups (Google Scholar)?

2007-11-09 Thread Adam R. Maxwell

On Nov 9, 2007, at 12:54 PM, Alexander H. Montgomery wrote:

 As for decreasing the number of requests: My guess is that the scraper
 currently depends upon the BibTeX links, and would have to be
 rewritten to scrape the HTML directly (which is also usually a bad
 idea, since the format is usually subject to change)

This is correct.  For a page with 10 BibTeX links, you get 10 URL  
loads.  Try the next nightly build and see if things are any different.

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Re: [Bibdesk-users] How to use Web Groups (Google Scholar)?

2007-11-09 Thread Adam R. Maxwell

On Nov 9, 2007, at 3:15 PM, François Briatte wrote:

 They are not persistent here either (1.3.11, v929).

 How about a preference to set the home page  for Web group?

Try the next nightly build; there's a dedicated bookmarks main menu.

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