Conversion Utilities

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Hi there,

Are there any utilities available to convert Reference Manager database?  I can see that through the tool I can import/export from a bunch of different formats, but is this available through some tool that I could access programmatically? (either through an API or just as a command-line utility).

The reason I would like to do that is that our team of writers currently use Reference Manager.  There is a neat visualization tool that I would like to introduce, but it only understand Bibtex database format.  So, I would like to keep our Reference Manager as the master database and have a little program that takes that database and converts it to bibtex format.  I am programmer, so I can do the automation part, but I don’t know what options I have for getting at the references locked up in our Reference Manager database.

Thanks,

Andy 

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I found a link on this page:  http://www.refman.com/support/rmsupport.asp

to here:                               http://www.refman.com/support/docs/WSDL_Documentation.txt

regarding SOAP services.

I need to write a Python script to export databases to XML, and it looks like there is an “Export” service that will do the trick, although I haven’t tried it yet…

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