arXiv as data source

[Ohjeah]

• If a bibtex entry has a arxiv.org url, betterbib should fill in author, title, year, archivePrefix, eprint and primaryClass.
• If it does have a valid journal field, pubstatus should be set to submitted; else the type should be changed from article to misc.

See also https://arxiv.org/help/faq/references

[leofang]

Another ref: https://tex.stackexchange.com/a/3848/29961 @nschloe If this suggestion is acceptable to you, I can create a PR. Thanks.

[avivace]

Any update on this?

[zerothi]

This would be amazing!

[nschloe]

Five years old, and finally fixed! :) betterbib 7 can also fetch data from arXiv now.