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smithery.ai

citation-grabber

Search for scientific papers and fetch citations in BibTeX or NBIB format from PubMed and CrossRef

First seen May 3, 2026

Installation

$ npx skills add https://smithery.ai
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Version1.1.0
Declared agents claude-code codex gemini clawdbot
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category
research
tags
["citation","bibtex","pubmed","crossref","academic"]
author
yf8578
repository
https://github.com/yf8578/citation-grabber
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Package contents

Files included with this skill beyond the listing page.

  • skill md SKILL.md 2,538 B
  • docs SUMMARY.md 122 B

History

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  2. First recorded snapshot · 1 installs

SKILL.md

Citation Grabber

Instantly fetch scientific paper citations from the command line.

Features

  • 🔍 Search by title, DOI, or PubMed ID
  • 📚 Supports BibTeX and NBIB output formats
  • 🔄 Dual source: PubMed + CrossRef
  • 📦 Batch processing from text files
  • ✨ Smart fallback between data sources

Installation

Via Skills Collection

# From the skills collection repository
./scripts/install.sh citation-grabber

Standalone

# Clone the standalone repository
git clone https://github.com/yf8578/citation-grabber.git
cd citation-grabber
pip install -r requirements.txt

Usage

Single Paper

By Title:

python3 citation.py "Attention Is All You Need"

By DOI:

python3 citation.py "10.1038/nature14539"

By PubMed ID:

python3 citation.py "12345678"

Output Formats

BibTeX (Default):

python3 citation.py "Deep Learning" --format bibtex

NBIB (PubMed Format for EndNote/Zotero):

python3 citation.py "COVID-19 vaccine" --format nbib

Batch Processing

Create a file papers.txt with paper titles/DOIs/PMIDs (one per line), then:

python3 citation.py papers.txt --output references.bib

Quiet Mode

Suppress progress messages:

python3 citation.py "Paper Title" --quiet

Requirements

  • Python 3.8+
  • requests library (auto-installed)
  • Internet connection

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