How do i get bibtex entries from Amazon.com

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Has anyone written an interface through which i can get a citation of a book/paper from amazon.com

Thanks for the suggestions from fellow users. I'm updating the questions to detail in more specifics:

Citeulike.org issue: I used BibTeX "Export from My library" features. However its not that accurate..it cannot extract all meta-data from amazon and complete the bibliographic reference
Mendeley Desktop : I used http://www.mendeley.com/blog/academic-features/mendeley-bookmarklet-released-one-click-import-from-google-scholar-pubmed-arxiv-acm-ieee-etc/ is a long way round, I want something where I give the URL and it gives me back the bibtex entry

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alfC · Answer 1 · 2016-01-29T17:01:43.607

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For a completely Web based solution with no addons:

Lead2Amazon

Go to http://lead.to/amazon/en/?op=bt put ISBN or title, choose BibTeX output and will look up in Amazon and generate the BibTeX, as a bonus it will contain the ISBN and the Amazon URL.

Tungare's ISBN to BibTeX Converter

Alternative using ISBN only: http://manas.tungare.name/software/isbn-to-bibtex/ it will generate the BibTeX including the Amazon URL.

Ottobib

http://www.ottobib.com, the same but it will not generate the Amazon URL. Can do multiple ISBN searches at a time.

edited Jan 29 '16 at 17:01

answered Oct 03 '11 at 20:29

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Unfortunately, lead2amazon appears to be defunct at this point. I get a 403 forbidden error from this link. – David Tresner-Kirsch Sep 13 '15 at 15:06
@DavidTresner-Kirsch, it could have been temporarily down, it works now. – alfC Jan 29 '16 at 17:02

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 31 '10 at 11:18

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If you use Firefox, the Zotero add-on should be able to store a citation, which you can then export as BibTeX.

answered Jan 31 '10 at 11:18

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score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Jan 31 '10 at 23:30

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In addition to zotero and citeulike, there is also Mendeley. It allows citation extraction from Amazon via a bookmarklet, and has bibtex export and syncing.

answered Jan 31 '10 at 23:30

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http://www.mendeley.com/blog/academic-features/mendeley-bookmarklet-released-one-click-import-from-google-scholar-pubmed-arxiv-acm-ieee-etc/ ..... long way round, I want something where I give the URL and it gives me back the bibtex entry – iceman Mar 19 '10 at 08:12

score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Jan 31 '10 at 11:56

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CiteULike is a social bookmarking service with bibtex support (just copy/paste from the webpage), and Post URL (citeulike.org/post_url.adp) seems to do a quite decent job extracting bibliographic metadata from Amazon book pages.

answered Jan 31 '10 at 11:56

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I used BibTeX Export from My library ... however its not that accurate..it cannot extract all meta-data from amazon and complete the bibliographic reference – iceman Mar 19 '10 at 08:20

How do i get bibtex entries from Amazon.com

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