Automator Application to Export References as Bib file for Overleaf

bibtex-export.md

Demo

Please use Better BibTeX for Zotero to generate the URLs of your literature collections.

AppleScript

on run {input, parameters}
	set p to path to me
	return p
end run

Passing result as arguments for the Shell Script

Shell Script

APP_PATH=$1
cd $1 && cd ../
rm -f config
cat list.txt | while read f; do echo -e "url = \"${f}\"\n-O\n" >> config; done;
curl -K config

refresh.sh

#!/bin/bash
cd "$(dirname "$0")"
rm -f config
rm -f *.bib *.biblatex *.bibtex
sleep 10
echo "Waiting for Dropbox's synchronization..."
cat list.txt | while read f; do echo -e "url = \"${f}\"\n-O\n" >> config; done;

echo "Downloading bibtex from Better Biblatex..."
curl -K config 
sleep 5

hasBiblatex=$(ls -1 *.biblatex 2>/dev/null | wc -l)
hasBibtex=$(ls -1 *.bibtex 2>/dev/null | wc -l)

if [ $hasBiblatex != 0 ]
then 
    for file in *.biblatex; do
        name=$(basename "$file" .biblatex) # surround the filename with double quotes to account for file names with spaces
        mv "$file" "$name.bib" # put echo in front when testing to see what the program would do without actually changing anything yet
    done
fi 

if [ $hasBibtex != 0 ]
then 
    for file in *.bibtex; do
        name=$(basename "$file" .bibtex) # surround the filename with double quotes to account for file names with spaces
        mv "$file" "$name.bib" # put echo in front when testing to see what the program would do without actually changing anything yet
    done
fi 

• Convert file type from biblatex or bibtex to bib for Overleaf's compatibility: release-v1.1
• Automator Application and plain list file: release