Copy BibTex entry from command line

[raffaem]

Is it possible to copy the BibTex entry from command line, starting from the citation key?

I would like to run something like:

bibtex alhawariInsightsCircularEconomy2021

and get

@article{alhawariInsightsCircularEconomy2021,
  title = {Insights from {{Circular Economy Literature}}: {{A Review}} of {{Extant Definitions}} and {{Unravelling Paths}} to {{Future Research}}},
  shorttitle = {Insights from {{Circular Economy Literature}}},
  author = {Alhawari, Omar and Awan, Usama and Bhutta, M. Khurrum S. and {\"U}lk{\"u}, M. Ali},
  year = {2021},
  month = jan,
  journal = {Sustainability},
  volume = {13},
  number = {2},
  pages = {859},
  publisher = {Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute},
  issn = {2071-1050},
  doi = {10.3390/su13020859},
  urldate = {2024-09-16},
  abstract = {The circular economy (CE) has become one of the prominent topics in both natural science and management literature over the last few decades. CE is a dual-loop regenerative system that focuses on the effective and efficient utilization of resources in the ecosystem, which is beneficial to environmental and economic performance optimization. Dual CE initiatives allow firms to increased resource eco-efficiency, as well as resource effectiveness. CE has profound consequences for economic and operational advantage. This reinforces the need for reflection on the definition that may provide guidelines to assess and advance the depth and diversity of the field. We aim to provide a definitional analysis of the CE and suggest future research streams to advance the existing literature. For this purpose, we employed a systematic literature review to collect related publications in the CE. As a result of this, a total of 91 papers were selected, studied, and analyzed. We proposed a sound definition of a circular economy that includes the main identified elements, organizational planning processes, customers and society, utilization of the ecosystem, and economic resource flows. Moreover, future direction agenda, in CE research, is suggested considering three research streams: (1) circular design as value creation and capture, (2) antecedents of key activities, and (3) consequences of key processes. There is limited empirical research conducted on CE, and much of the existing research focuses on theoretical, conceptual, and normative. A few empirical research studies are mainly cross-sectional in their focus and are confined to developing and emerging economies. We hope this study's findings will extend the field of CE, in which some of the most influential information regarding CE literature is provided. This study suggests that the development of CE initiatives plays an important role in the growing digital transformation in the value chain. There have been limited research studies in the interface of circular economy and Industry 4.0. Future research studies may investigate the extent to which digital transformation can increase the implementation of CE, and their influence on digital performance management.},
  copyright = {http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/},
  langid = {english},
  keywords = {circular design,circular economy,digital performance,ecosystem,value creation},
  file = {/mnt/dataint/data/zotero/storage/6BMMNJCJ/Alhawari et al. - 2021 - Insights from Circular Economy Literature A Review of Extant Definitions and Unravelling Paths to F.pdf}
}

to stdout (which I can then pipe to the clipboard).

I would use this to manually populate the .bib file of a Quarto document (I don't like the visual editor due to this bug)

[retorquere]

Yes:

curl 'http://localhost:23119/better-bibtex/export/item?citationKeys=shelahTwocardinalTheorem1975&translator=bib'

[10b14224cc]

Yes:

curl 'http://localhost:23119/better-bibtex/export/item?citationKeys=shelahTwocardinalTheorem1975&translator=bib'

1. Is this documented somewhere?
2. Does this export bibtex or biblatex files?

[retorquere]

1. Is this documented somewhere?

https://retorque.re/zotero-better-bibtex/exporting/pull/index.html

2. Does this export bibtex or biblatex files?

yes

[raffaem]

Just sharing what I came up with to add a bibliography entry to a bibliography file from the command line:

#!/usr/bin/env bash

# zotcit bibliography.bib CITATIONKEY

if [ ! -f "$1" ]; then
  touch "$1"
fi

grep "$2" "$1"

if [ "$?" -eq 1 ]; then
  CIT=$(curl "http://localhost:23119/better-bibtex/export/item?citationKeys=$2&translator=bib" 2>/dev/null)
  if [ "$CIT" = "no items found" ]; then
    echo "ERROR: Not a valid citation key"
    exit 1
  fi
  echo "Adding citation to bibliography file"
  echo -e "\n" >> "$1"
  echo "$CIT" >> "$1"
else
  echo "Citation already present in bibliography file"
fi