download all publications from bibsonomy as bibtex (even if there are more than 1000 of them)

get-bibsonomy.sh

#!/bin/bash

URL="http://www.bibsonomy.org/bib/user/peter.ralph?items=1000&bibtex.start=" 
OUTFILE="peter.ralph-bibsonomy-$(date '+%Y-%m-%d').bib"
TEMPFILE=$(mktemp "get-bib.tmpXXXX")

if [ -e $OUTFILE ]
then
    echo "$OUTFILE already exists.  Delete it first."
    exit 1
fi

for START in 0 $(seq 10)
do
    echo "----------------------------------"
    echo "Getting $(($START+1))-th thousand."
    echo "----------------------------------"
    wget "${URL}${START}000" -O $TEMPFILE
    cat $TEMPFILE >> $OUTFILE
    if [ ! -s $TEMPFILE ]
    then
        break
    fi
done

echo "Done with ${OUTFILE}."
rm $TEMPFILE

exit 0