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Mendeley is a free reference manager and academic social network, with an API for developers to create their own applications.

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OAuth with Verification in .NET

I'm trying to create a .NET-based client app (in WPF - although for the time being I'm just doing it as a console app) to integrate with an OAuth-enabled application, specifically Mendeley (http://dev.mendeley.com), which apparently uses 3-legged…
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How can I stop Mendeley's automatic synchronization？

How can I stop Mendeley's automatic synchronization？ I do not want to upload some pdf files.
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Mendeley previous view feature for pdfs?

Is there a previous view feature in Mendeley for viewing pdfs (similar to the one from Adobe Reader using alt + left arrow) to jump between the source and the destination of a link (for example to the bibliography in a pdf)? It would be helpful…
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Authentication issue in mendeley Python SDK

I was reading Mendeley docs from here. I am trying to get data in my console for which I am using the following code from the tutorial from mendeley import Mendeley # These values should match the ones supplied when registering your…
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Can you query Mendeley Desktop with an API?

I would like a script to query my Mendeley Desktop for a list of articles. Is this possible (in any scripting language, including shell)? I know there is an API I could use over http, but I need a local query for when I am not connected to the…
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How to synchronise PDFs annotated externally with Mendeley Desktop

I'm using Mendeley Desktop to organise PDFs on the cloud which are sync-ed to my Surface Pro. Since Mendeley Desktop is not very touch screen friendly I'm highlighting PDFs with an external program. However, the highlighted PDFs are not being…
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Mendeley search by query parameters

Mendeley has a Catalog Search -> Search by query API that looks like the following: curl 'https://api.mendeley.com/search/catalog?query=polar+bears&limit=3' ... The API Reference documentation says: "Retrieve documents which match general query…
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Mendeley API File retrieval by id fails with response code 0

I'm experimenting with the Mendeley API to upload and retrieve documents and files and have a problem with the files/{file_id} endpoint. I have a personal Mendeley account I'm using for testing, populated with some PDF documents. For example, on the…
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Search using LIKE behaviour

I'm using the Mendeley API and when I search documents (using the /search/documents) I can specify a query parameter that search string in any fileds. Now it seems that the Mendeley applies a strict match on the string. For example if I have a…
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Mendeley Custom OAuth Strategy

Mendeley has a great API (in fact they have put up a contest using their API, this question is not specific to that though), that uses OAuth. I am trying to write a strategy to allow Mendeley Authentication, and am having quite a bit of trouble…
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Abbreviated Journal Titles in Mendeley bibtex?

I am trying to get abbreviated journal names into bibtex from Mendeley, but am running into issues. I have followed the instructions here to activate abbreviations but they do not appear in bibtex. For example, if I 'Copy as formatted citation' I…
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Uninstalled mendeley but the citation plugin still appears in word

I have uninstalled Mendeley on my Mac but the citation plugin still shows up in word. I have restarted my computer numerous times but still there. Not sure what I am doing wrong. Any suggestions would be helpful! I have restarted my computer…
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Can't open Mendeley Desktop on Debian Stretch QSslSocket errors

I tried opening Mendeley through my terminal and got a bunch of errors and a pop-up window that says Mendeley Desktop is already running but may not be responding. Click the Mendeley icon in the taskbar or dock to activate it. But there's…
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Python Mendeley SDK API returns error in authentication

I have a mendeley account which I am using from their online version. I created a userid and client secret, saved it in config.yml file from and using it to authenticate. I am using the below code available on their website import yaml from mendeley…
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Mendeley API - how to use JavaScript SDK - implicit flow authentication

I hope you won't mind my posting a question, because I'm not a programmer and need a "for dummies" explanation. Although I can use basic JavaScript, I've never used an API. This is what I want to do: I've made an HTML page on my hard-drive (which I…
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