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Norbert Nemec | 12 Jun 22:54

Drag'n'drop for URLs?

Hi there,

www.citeulike.org has that great mechanism that allows the scraping of 
bibliographic data from many different journals via a plugin mechanism. 
The plugins are freely available via SVN and I am nearly done with an 
external script for tellico that uses the same mechanism.

Now, one of the nice thing about these plugins is, that they accept a 
URL as input and return all the bibliographic data including the abstract.

It would be really neat, if one could drag'n'drop a URL onto tellico and 
this would then be run through a script. Is there a way to do that?

Greetings,
Norbert

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Robby Stephenson | 13 Jun 07:35

Re: Drag'n'drop for URLs?

On Thursday 12 June 2008, Norbert Nemec wrote:
> Now, one of the nice thing about these plugins is, that they accept a
> URL as input and return all the bibliographic data including the
> abstract.
>
> It would be really neat, if one could drag'n'drop a URL onto tellico and
> this would then be run through a script. Is there a way to do that?

Bibdesk, I think, has a feature like that, browsing through Google Scholar 
or something, and the URL is parsed for records to import. I emailed with 
Alf Eaton a bit about embedding the Javascript engine, partially for zotero 
support, but generally for browsing and extracting. I didn't make much 
headway with it.

I can't think of a way to do what you describe right now. The DND right now 
looks at the mimetype of the URL to call one of the importers. There's not 
much flexibility there.

Robby