BibTeX entry from URL

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This extension provides a BibTeX reference for the active URL

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A simple chrome extension that creates a BibTeX entry for the URL in the current tab.
Supports @misc and @online entries.

Tab's title and URL are automatically copied to be used in your LaTeX documents.

"Accessed on" field (resp. "urldate" for @online entries) is optional

Author, year and month info need to be filled-in manually, and can optionally be omitted.

Add
\usepackage{hyperref}

in your LaTeX document for the extension to work properly.

Example of use:

For http://developer.chrome.com/extensions/packaging.html we get:

@misc{Packa3:Online,
author = {},
title = {Packaging - Google Chrome},
howpublished = {\url{https://developer.chrome.com/extensions/packaging}},
month = {},
year = {},
note = {(Accessed on 06/07/2014)}
}

Changes in v.2.0.2: Fixes a bug that copies to clipboard on every page load
Changes in v.2.0.1:WIP on fixing a bug that copies to clipboard on every page load
Changes in v.2.0.0: Support for manifest v3, preliminary author & date parsing
Changes in v.1.3.2: Abbreviation format
Changes in v.1.3.1: Bug fix in option initialization
Changes in v.1.3.0: Added options for omitting blank entries and @online format
Changes in v.1.2.9: Replacing illegal characters in bibtex key with '.'. Switched from 'Visited' to 'Accessed'
Changes in v.1.2.8: added right-click option to save BibTeX (context menu)
Changes in v.1.2.7: CSS fix & restored month, year option
Changes in v.1.2.6: additional date formats
Changes in v.1.2.5: added escaping of TeX special characters and date format selection option
Changes in v.1.2.4: added 'year' and 'month' fields
Changes in v1.2.3 : switched from @online to @misc
Changes in v1.2.2 : added note field.

Latest reviews

Stas Bondarenko 2024-03-02: One of the most useful extensions for my entire life! Thank you!
Mounika Durga 2022-05-07: Loved it ! Job done in a second
Mounika Durga 2022-05-07: Loved it ! Job done in a second
Hazhir “Hazhir027” 2022-01-04: Absolutely useful. It works correctly. Thank you so much.
Hazhir “Hazhir027” 2022-01-04: Absolutely useful. It works correctly. Thank you so much.
Imad Eddine Ibrahim BEKKOUCH 2021-03-18: Amazing work, thanks a lot, I really needed it. It would be nice to provide a feature that brings both sides to the same text. so that I dont have to scroll from the other side again.
Imad Eddine Ibrahim BEKKOUCH 2021-03-18: Amazing work, thanks a lot, I really needed it. It would be nice to provide a feature that brings both sides to the same text. so that I dont have to scroll from the other side again.
Scott H. Hawley 2020-12-27: Does not grab author or date published, sets class to misc regardless. Just sets title and url. Meh.
Scott H. Hawley 2020-12-27: Does not grab author or date published, sets class to misc regardless. Just sets title and url. Meh.
Olivier Hokke 2020-08-25: Wanted to like it, but still need to do lots of information filling myself, like the Author(s) and publishing date. Nowadays most news and blog sites should have correct tags ready for this plugin to read, but it doesn't seem to do that. Take this URL: https://www.pcgamer.com/why-are-game-install-sizes-getting-so-big/ The `type="application/ld+json"` script contains ALL information, but is not used?
Olivier Hokke 2020-08-25: Wanted to like it, but still need to do lots of information filling myself, like the Author(s) and publishing date. Nowadays most news and blog sites should have correct tags ready for this plugin to read, but it doesn't seem to do that. Take this URL: https://www.pcgamer.com/why-are-game-install-sizes-getting-so-big/ The `type="application/ld+json"` script contains ALL information, but is not used?
Viraj Chaudhari 2020-08-02: Thank You, it is really good. Keep up the good work! You are a life-savior.
Viraj Chaudhari 2020-08-02: Thank You, it is really good. Keep up the good work! You are a life-savior.
Noran El-Kafrawy 2019-09-06: It is just great! for an update I'd like to have the website date and author. Thank you...keep the good work up!
Noran El-Kafrawy 2019-09-06: It is just great! for an update I'd like to have the website date and author. Thank you...keep the good work up!
Hawger Carrillo 2019-04-01: Fácil de usar con un solo clic obtienes la referencia lista para agregarla.
Amara dinesh kumar 2018-07-26: Superb solved all my problems one of the best bibtex free extension
Amara dinesh kumar 2018-07-26: Superb solved all my problems one of the best bibtex free extension
Florian Thonig 2018-05-23: Very useful - Would be great to have an option to remove the \url{...} from the "howpublished" field.
Florian Thonig 2018-05-23: Very useful - Would be great to have an option to remove the \url{...} from the "howpublished" field.
Mariusz 2018-04-18: Very useful extension! Thank you!
Mariusz 2018-04-18: Very useful extension! Thank you!
Giuliana B. 2018-04-15: Thank you so much! Very useful!
Giuliana B. 2018-04-15: Thank you so much! Very useful!
Vineet John 2017-02-22: Handy tool
Vineet John 2017-02-22: Handy tool
Ratul Sikder 2017-01-16: Excellent and useful. :)
Ratul Sikder 2017-01-16: Excellent and useful. :)
Mike Vasiljevs 2017-01-07: Excellent! No frills, does the job! Future Work: a nice to have is to parse the author field. For instance looking for "mailto" hyperlinks, first names, text prefixed with prepositions like "by" :)
Mike Vasiljevs 2017-01-07: Excellent! No frills, does the job! Future Work: a nice to have is to parse the author field. For instance looking for "mailto" hyperlinks, first names, text prefixed with prepositions like "by" :)
Jan Wirth 2016-09-20: Very useful, indispensable when writing papers or thesis.
Jan Wirth 2016-09-20: Very useful, indispensable when writing papers or thesis.
Danilo Freire 2016-03-27: A very useful extension!
Danilo Freire 2016-03-27: A very useful extension!
Philipp Staender 2015-10-06: works great :)
Philipp Staender 2015-10-06: works great :)
Kyle Johnston 2015-02-05: While it doesn't pull a whole lot of data, it gets the basics and is very fast. Copies straight to the clipboard.
Kyle Johnston 2015-02-05: While it doesn't pull a whole lot of data, it gets the basics and is very fast. Copies straight to the clipboard.
Sam Jarman 2014-06-01: You are perhaps the most awesome person, ever? Yes, ever. Thank you.
Sam Jarman 2014-06-01: You are perhaps the most awesome person, ever? Yes, ever. Thank you.
Oliver August Tazl 2014-03-11: It would be nice to change from @misc to @online. Also would it be nice to use urldate for the visit date.
Oliver August Tazl 2014-03-11: It would be nice to change from @misc to @online. Also would it be nice to use urldate for the visit date.
Frode Tobias Bjerke 2013-10-15: Works fine! Miss urldate though. Nice meta to have the date you visited the page!
Frode Tobias Bjerke 2013-10-15: Works fine! Miss urldate though. Nice meta to have the date you visited the page!
Michael Nagel 2013-10-10: does what it promises. please add a way to contact the developer/give feedback. also, please include a `urldate = "10.10.2013"` field to the generated citation.
Michael Nagel 2013-10-10: does what it promises. please add a way to contact the developer/give feedback. also, please include a `urldate = "10.10.2013"` field to the generated citation.

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