Convert BibTex file to database entries using Python

Question

Given a bibTex file, I need to add the respective fields(author, title, journal etc.) to a table in a MySQL database (with a custom schema).

After doing some initial re

Answer 1

Old question, but I am doing the same thing at the moment using the Pybtex library, which has an inbuilt parser:

from pybtex.database.input import bibtex

#open a bibtex file
parser = bibtex.Parser()
bibdata = parser.parse_file("myrefs.bib")

#loop through the individual references
for bib_id in bibdata.entries:
    b = bibdata.entries[bib_id].fields
    try:
        # change these lines to create a SQL insert
        print b["title"]
        print b["journal"]
        print b["year"]
        #deal with multiple authors
        for author in bibdata.entries[bib_id].persons["author"]:
            print author.first(), author.last()
    # field may not exist for a reference
    except(KeyError):
        continue