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Show HN: Citeurl – Find article's url from citation

4 pointsby antbbnover 10 years ago

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antbbnover 10 years ago
Hello, I made this simple app to help me whenever I&#x27;m reading some journal article. I always want to give a quick peek at some referenced article but searching google for the citation almost never gives me a link to the right article, and copying and pasting is always quicker than filling some database archive&#x27;s search form.<p>I really like the regexp matching approach because is fast and doesn&#x27;t need any database at all, the downside is that not all publishers&#x27; websites have meaningful urls :(<p>I choose Flask to make this because I am learning python for my work and Flask seemed to be really easy to make a one-page app like this, and indeed with very few lines of code and trips over to the documentation I was able to pull this off in the weekend.<p>Tell me what you think and feel free to suggest any improvement or addition, i would really like this to be useful for more people than the ones that live between the four astrophysics journals I implemented :)