In zeehio/mendeleyr: Mendeley API for R

mendeleyr provides a subset of the Mendeley API through R.

Browse source code

Checkout the code and browse it at http://github.com/zeehio/mendeleyr.

How to install mendeleyr:

Package installation

To install the latest development version:

devtools::install_github("zeehio/mendeleyr")

Quick start:

Setup:

Mendeley's API is based on oAuth2. This means that mendeleyr should be registered as an application in [http://dev.mendeley.com/myapps.html] and receive a client_id and a client_secret. As mendeleyr is open source, the package can't provide a secret so it is required that the mendeleyr user registers its own app.

This is a one-time step, and it is very easy. mdl_conf_new() provides detailed instructions on how to do that:

library(mendeleyr)
mdl_conf_new()

Once you have registered you app, you will be able to save the mendeley parameters to a file, by default it is saved as .mendeley_conf.json in the current directory.

mdl_conf_save(client_id = "given-by-mendeley", client_secret = "given-by-mendeley",
              where = ".mendeley_conf.json")

Mendeley knows now that you are using mendeleyr. The final step is to grant mendeleyr access to your account. The first time you run this, you will need to login to Mendeley through the browser. Afterwards a token will be saved so you don't have to login every time.

token <- mdl_token(".mendeley_conf.json")

Using mendeleyr

Export mendeley folders to a bibtex file:

all_my_folders <- mdl_folders(token)
mdl_to_bibtex(token, folder_name = "my_folder", bibfile = "my_folder.bib")

If the folder belongs to a group:

mdl_to_bibtex(token, folder_name = "shared_folder", group_name = "my_group",
              bibfile = "shared_folder.bib")

List all documents in a folder:

my_docs <- mdl_documents(token, folder_name = "my_folder")

Download a file:

my_docs <- mdl_documents(token, folder_name = "my_folder")
all_files <- mdl_files(token, document_id = my_docs$id[1])
mdl_download_file(token, all_files[1,])