Document Object Identifiers and Python and Markdown, together!

Type journal article DOIs, and have them automagically converted into a beautiful bibliography.

A Markdown extension that looks through your text for things like doi:10.1234/j.banana.5678, looks up the metadata on the crossref API and outputs text according to your requirements

Add 'markdown_doi' to your Markdown call and watch the magic unfold:

>>> from markdown import Markdown

>>> markdown = Markdown(extensions=['markdown_doi']
>>> markdown.convert('doi:10.1016/j.applanim.2010.02.004')

outputs

<p><span class="doi"><a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.applanim.2010.02.004">Are cows more likely to lie down the longer they stand?</a> <span class="doi-year">(2010)</span></span></p>

You can enable the caching if for example you are using Pelican and constantly regenerating the same files

>>> markdown = Markdown(extensions=['markdown_doi(cache_file=.doi_cache)']

The templating function takes the metadata Dict from the message key of the JSON API response and returns a markdown.util.etree.ElementTree. See the default template_title_link_year function.

from markdown_doi import makeExtension as makeDoiExtension

def templater(metadata, doi_pattern):
    el = markdown.util.etree.Element("span")
    el.text = '%(given)s %(family)s' % metadata['author'][0]
    return el

ext = makeDoiExtension(templater=templater)
md = markdown.Markdown(extensions=[ext])
html = md.convert('hello 10.1016/j.applanim.2010.02.004')
assert html == 'hello <p><span>Bert J. Tolkamp</span></p>'

Options

Installation

From Github:

git clone https://github.com/bcaller/markdown_doi.git
pip install -e ./markdown_doi

From Pypi:

pip install markdown_doi