Package: citepy
citepyPython 3.7+Easily cite software libraries using information from automatically gathered from their package repository.InstallationFor installing python-based system tools, I recommendpipx.
With pipx installed:pipxinstallcitepyIf you only have pip available:pipinstall--usercitepyUsageusage: citepy [-h] [--all-python] [--repo {cran,crates,pypi}]
              [--infile INFILE] [--outfile OUTFILE]
              [--format {csl-json/lines,csl-json/min,csl-json/pretty}]
              [--verbose] [--date-accessed DATE_ACCESSED] [--version]
              [package ...]

Fetch citation data from software package repositories.

positional arguments:
  package               names of packages you want to cite, optionally with
                        (full) version string. e.g. 'numpy==1.16.3'
                        'beautifulsoup4==4.7.1' . Note that version strings
                        are handled differently by different repositories, and
                        may be ignored. In particular, any non-exact version
                        constraint is ignored. '-' will read a newline-
                        separated list from stdin.

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  --all-python, -a      if set, will get information for all python packages
                        accessible to `pip freeze`
  --repo {cran,crates,pypi}, -r {cran,crates,pypi}
                        which package repository to use (default pypi)
  --infile INFILE, -i INFILE
                        path to read input packages from as newline-separated
                        items (can be given multiple times; - reads from
                        stdin)
  --outfile OUTFILE, -o OUTFILE
                        path to write output to (default or - writes to
                        stdout)
  --format {csl-json/lines,csl-json/min,csl-json/pretty}, -f {csl-json/lines,csl-json/min,csl-json/pretty}
                        format to write out (default 'csl-json/pretty')
  --verbose, -v         Increase verbosity of logging (can be repeated).
  --date-accessed DATE_ACCESSED, -d DATE_ACCESSED
                        Manually set access date, in format 'YYYY-MM-DD'.
                        Falls back to CITEPY_DATE_ACCESSED environment
                        variable, then today's date.
  --version             print version information and exitSupported package reposPyPI (pypi)crates.io (crates)Supported output formatsCSL-data JSONCSL-data can be converted into bibtex, HTML, or a plaintext bibliography using another tool, e.g.citation-js.ExampleTo get a CSL-data JSON representation of the citation information of this package:citepycitepy[{"URL":"https://www.github.com/clbarnes/citepy","abstract":"Automatically create citations for packages","accessed":{"date-parts":[[2063,4,5]]},"author":[{"literal":"Chris L. Barnes"}],"categories":["software","python","libraries","pypi"],"id":"citepy","issued":{"date-parts":[[2021,2,2]]},"original-date":{"date-parts":[[2019,5,25]]},"publisher":"GitHub","title":"citepy","type":"webpage","version":"0.4.0"}]LimitationsAuthor names are not parsed, and are therefore taken as literalsThis is a "wontfix". Author namesshouldbe literals. A huge amount of complexity is added to tools which attempt, and fail, to encode the complexity of different cultural conventions around handling names.If the package has its own citation information (as numpy, scipy, astropy etc do), citepy will not pick it up - it just uses the package publication metadataSoftware libraries do not fit into the CSL or bibtex categories very well, and so are cited as the web pages which host them