Python package for accessing Mendeley's local sqlite3 database

Description

pymendeley retrieves reference information from Mendeley's local sqlite3 database.

Install bergercookie/pymendeley using:

sudo pip install https://github.com/bergercookie/pymendeley/tarball/master

Dump a list of all references:

import lmendeley

db = lmendeley.MendeleyDatabaseInterface()
references = db.load_all_references()

for ref in references:
    print(ref.as_text_reference())

Projects using pymendeley:

• mendeley2calibre

Offline documentation

A developer can also generate the Sphinx documentation for pymendeley offline:

• Install the related tools:

  apt-get install sphinx sphinx_rtd_theme
  

• To update the documentation run make html inside the docs directory. Open the build/html/index.html file to view the results:

  $ firefox docs/build/html/index.html