papis-firefox

Description

papis-firefox is a Firefox add-on for integration with Papis, a powerful command-line bibliography manager for Linux. It allows to add an entry in Papis using the url of the current page. It installs a button in the navigation bars that simply executes in a new terminal the command: papis add --from-url <url>with <url> being the url of the current tab or papis add --from-doi <doi> if a DOI is found in the url.

Due to the security restrictions on web extensions, the add-on cannot execute the command itself. It requires a connector app written in Python. The web extension sends thes url to the connector app, using native messaging, that executes the command.

Installation of the Firefox add-on

Two ways:

1. Install it from the Mozilla add-on page.

Or,

2. Create a zip from the source:

cd add-on
zip -r -FS ../papis-firefox.zip *

The .zip package can then be installed through the Add-ons section of the Firefox menu. If you choose this method, the add-on would not be signed. To be installed, it is required to change the parameter xpinstall.signatures.required preferenceto false in about:config. Note that this change may create a security vulnerability on your system, use it at your own risks. Prefer the first option if you have no reason to do otherwise.

Installation of the Papis connector script

Copy the content of the script folder to your local papis script folder, for instance ~/.papis or ~/.config/papis/scripts. Then execute the command:

papis install-webext

It will create a papis_connector.json file and copy it in the .mozilla local folder to allow the Firefox add-on to communicate with the connector app. Then restart Firefox and you are done.