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Citation Grabber

skill-yf8578-claude-skills-collection-citation-grabber · by yf8578

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

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$ agentstack add skill-yf8578-claude-skills-collection-citation-grabber

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  • Prompt-injection patterns
  • Secret / credential exfiltration
  • Dangerous shell & filesystem operations
  • Untrusted network calls
  • Known-malicious package signatures

What it can access

  • Network access No
  • Filesystem access No
  • Shell / process execution No
  • Environment & secrets No
  • Dynamic code execution No

From automated source analysis of v0.1.0. “Used” means the capability is present in the source — more access means more to trust, not that it’s unsafe.

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About

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

Links

  • Full Repository: https://github.com/yf8578/citation-grabber
  • Documentation: See repository README
  • License: MIT

Source & license

This open-source skill is cataloged on AgentStack and links to its original source — we do not rehost the code.

Install and usage instructions live in the source repository linked above.

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Versions

  • v0.1.0 Imported from the upstream source.