Citation Search via Wikipedia Citoid API

[benrbray]

I recently became aware of the pandoc-2urlcite tool, which automatically extracts citation data from URLs and other identifiers like DOI, ISBN, PMCID, PMID, etc.. From the project website,

pandoc-url2cite is based on the work of the Zotero developers. Zotero has a set of Translators that are able to extract citation info from a number of specific and general web pages. These translators are written in Javascript and run within the context of the given web site. They are made to be used from the Zotero Connector browser extension, but thankfully there is a standalone Translation Server as well. To avoid the effort required to automatically start and manage this server locally, pandoc-url2cite instead uses a publicly accessible instance of this server provided by Wikipedia with a public REST API.

Noteworthy should be able to retrieve citation data for the user by making requests to the Citoid API endpoint. This would be especially useful for automatically populating new files with citation info.