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Remove entire publications from ACM Digital Library's exported .bib file
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| from pybtex.database.input import bibtex | |
| from pybtex.database.output.bibtex import Writer | |
| from pybtex.errors import set_strict_mode | |
| import sys | |
| if __name__ == '__main__': | |
| if len(sys.argv) != 2: | |
| print('usage: python3 detrashify_acm.py /path/to/acm.bib') | |
| exit(1) | |
| filename = sys.argv[1] | |
| print(f'Detrashifying {filename}') | |
| # allow duplicate bibs | |
| set_strict_mode(False) | |
| # parse acm.bib | |
| parser = bibtex.Parser() | |
| bib_data = parser.parse_file(filename) | |
| old_len = len(bib_data.entries.items()) | |
| # remove entries with authors == None | |
| keys_to_remove = [] | |
| excluded = 0 | |
| for cite_key, entry in bib_data.entries.items(): | |
| if 'author' not in entry.persons or len(entry.persons['author']) == 0: # remove | |
| print(f"Filtering out {entry.fields['title'].split(':')[0]}") | |
| keys_to_remove.append(cite_key) | |
| excluded += 1 | |
| for key in keys_to_remove: | |
| del bib_data.entries[key] | |
| writer = Writer() | |
| with open("acm-updated.bib", 'w', encoding='utf-8') as file: | |
| writer.write_stream(bib_data, file) | |
| new_len = len(bib_data.entries.items()) | |
| print(f'excluded {excluded} entries without authors') | |
| print(f'Old len: {old_len}\t New len: {new_len}') | |
| print(f'Updated file: acm-updated.bib') |
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