Adds citations count to documents in your Mendeley library.
Install python and pip and afterwards run:
git clone https://github.com/smidm/mendeley-add-citations
cd mendeley-add-citations
pip install -r requirements.txt
You have to register the application at Mendeley before usage.
- create account at http://dev.mendeley.com/
- register the application at http://dev.mendeley.com/myapps.html
- to redirect URL fill http://localhost:5000/oauth
- generate secret
- submit
- write to
config.ymlthe client id and the secret.
To start the script run:
$ python mendeley_add_citations.py
On the first run you will be asked to go to an url where you have to grant access to your Mendeley library.
You can set a few options at the beginning of mendeley-add-citations.py.
The whole process takes from tens of minutes to hours. There are pauses between requests to Google Scholar between 5 and 20 seconds to avoid being blocked by Google.
In case of WSGI application exception KeyError: 'state' clear cookies originating from mendeley.com.
GPL3, see LICENSE