[Tex/LaTex] Tool for generating a website’s BibTex using the URL

Question

Is there an existing tool for generating BibTeX of a website using its URL? What I'm thinking is something like a web tool or a Python script that does this.

Answer 1

I'm using Zotero, a Firefox plugin, to collect and maintain my references. It has to possiblity to export to BibTeX and to generate an entry from a website. It supports several online formats for references, like Google Scholar or the IEEE Explorer website and can extract the data from them directly. For general websites it produces a generic entry.

For example it generated this entry from this very page:

@misc{_citing_????,
    title = {citing - Tool for generating a website's {BibTex} using the {URL?} - {TeX} - {LaTeX} - Stack Exchange},
    url = {http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/32955/tool-for-generating-a-websites-bibtex-using-the-url},
    howpublished = {http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/32955/tool-for-generating-a-websites-bibtex-using-the-url}
}