Web Page Citation Creator

Create bibliography citations from web page URLs with automatic archival snapshot and metadata extraction.

Features

• Wayback Machine Integration: Automatically submits URLs to the Internet Archive for preservation
• Metadata Extraction: Extracts title, author, description, site name, and publish date from semantic HTML
• Multiple Formats: Outputs citations in BibTeX or CSL JSON format
• Smart Citation Keys: Generates citation keys from domain + author + year

Usage

npx tsx plugins/bib/scripts/cite-web.ts <url>
npx tsx plugins/bib/scripts/cite-web.ts <url> --format=bibtex
npx tsx plugins/bib/scripts/cite-web.ts <url> --no-wayback
npx tsx plugins/bib/scripts/cite-web.ts <url> --output=citations.bib