Python function that downloads all Mendeley entries as bibtex

download_mendeley_bibtex.py

import requests
from mendeley import Mendeley


def get_mendeley_bibtex(login, api_id, api_secret):
    # login: tuple containing username and password
    # api_id: Mendeley API id
    # api_secret: Mendeley API secret

    # Temporarily disable InsecurePlatformWarnings from urllib3
    requests.packages.urllib3.disable_warnings()

    # Set-up a Mendeley client
    print "Logging in to Mendeley"
    mendeley = Mendeley(str(api_id), client_secret=api_secret, redirect_uri="http://mendeley.com")

    # Authorize user for Mendeley
    auth = mendeley.start_authorization_code_flow()
    login_url = auth.get_login_url()
    r = requests.post(login_url, data={"username": login[0], "password": login[1]}, timeout=10)
    auth_response = r.history[2].url
    session = auth.authenticate(auth_response)

    # Retrieve Mendeley documents in bibtex format
    print "Downloading bib file"
    url = "https://api.mendeley.com/documents"
    
    # Max limit is 500
    params = {
        "view": "bib",
        "limit": 500
    }
    access_token = session.token['access_token']
    headers = {
        "Authorization": "Bearer %s" % access_token,
        "Accept": "application/x-bibtex"
    }
    r = requests.get(url, headers=headers, params=params, timeout=10)
    if r.status_code != 200:
        raise IOError("Shit, something broke downloading the bibfile")
    return r.content