Texbib is a program that helps you to manage your BibTeX references.
To install bib use the following commands
pip install --user texbib
To add the contents of a BibTeX foo.bib file to the global bibliography type into a shell
$ bib add foo.bib
You can specify as many files as you want in a singe command. The entries in the bibliography can be addressed by the ID that is specified in the BibTeX file.
You can also add a reference via its DOI,
either in the doi:… format or as URL starting with https://doi.org/.
$ bib add doi:10.1002/andp.19053220806
This will make a request to the crossref api.
Preprints from arXiv may be added similarly:
$ bib add arXiv:1306.4856
You can have a look at the references in the bibliography with
$ bib show
Later you probably want to create a new file with all the references in your document directory.
Use the handy dump command for that.
$ bib dump
Wrote to default.bib
To remove a single item with ID foo2000 from the active bibliography
$ bib rm foo2000
You can group your references into bibliographies. To create one called myBib
bib init myBib
After creation it is your new active bibliography. Everything you add and remove will be applied to it instead of the default one.
To see what bibliographies exist and which is active
$ bib list
default
* myBib
To change the active bibliography to an existing one use the checkout command.
$ bib checkout default
A bibliography can be removed with
$ bib delete myBib