DOI role for Sphinx

doilinks.py

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
"""
    doilinks
    ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
    Extension to add links to DOIs. With this extension you can use e.g.
    :doi:`10.1016/S0022-2836(05)80360-2` in your documents. This will
    create a link to a DOI resolver
    (``https://doi.org/10.1016/S0022-2836(05)80360-2``).
    The link caption will be the raw DOI.
    You can also give an explicit caption, e.g.
    :doi:`Basic local alignment search tool <10.1016/S0022-2836(05)80360-2>`.

    :copyright: Copyright 2015  Jon Lund Steffensen. Based on extlinks by
        the Sphinx team.
    :license: BSD.
"""

from docutils import nodes, utils

from sphinx.util.nodes import split_explicit_title


def doi_role(typ, rawtext, text, lineno, inliner, options={}, content=[]):
    text = utils.unescape(text)
    has_explicit_title, title, part = split_explicit_title(text)
    full_url = 'https://doi.org/' + part
    if not has_explicit_title:
        title = 'doi:' + part
    pnode = nodes.reference(title, title, internal=False, refuri=full_url)
    return [pnode], []


def setup_link_role(app):
    app.add_role('doi', doi_role)


def setup(app):
    app.connect('builder-inited', setup_link_role)
    return {'version': '0.1', 'parallel_read_safe': True}

@mikofski That seems like a much better solution. Also requires adding

extensions = [
    'sphinx.ext.extlinks',
…

It produces this though:

WARNING: extlinks: Sphinx-6.0 will require a caption string to contain exactly one '%s' and all other '%' need to be escaped as '%%'.

Oh I get it. You need to change it to

extlinks = {
    'doi': ('https://dx.doi.org/%s', 'doi:%s'),
}