in principle, it should be possible to simply send a post request to get the bibtex file,

here is approx what the anthrousource citation page sends:

http://www.anthrosource.net/action/downloadCitation

doi=10.1525%2Faa.2005.107.2.183&downloadFileName=aaa_aa107_183

include=cit

format=bibtex

direct=1

or something like that

and this, or something like it, should mimic that. this doesn’t work yet though:


#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use warnings;
use LWP;

my $response = $browser->post( $url,
[
'doi' => '10.1525%2Faa.2005.107.2.183', #example
'downloadFileName' => 'aaa_aa107_183',
'include' => 'cit',
'format' => 'bibtex',
'direct' => '1'
]
);
print "$response\n";


In other words, this means there is no need to develop special code to parse the AnthroSource web site citation pages. We just need code to tell CiteULike how to navigate to the BibTex output page from the citation page.

That’s about as much as I can do on this. We need someone who knows Perl to do the rest!

See the wiki for more info.