arfanliaqat / zotero-lib

zotero-lib

Introduction: Tools for working with the APIs of Zotero and Zenodo (zotzen)

This repository is part of a set of repositories, see here: https://github.com/orgs/OpenDevEd/teams/zotzen-team/repositories. Currently, this set contains a number of libraries

• zenodo-lib https://github.com/opendeved/zenodo-lib, https://www.npmjs.com/package/zenodo-lib
• zotero-lib https://github.com/opendeved/zotero-lib, https://www.npmjs.com/package/zotero-lib
• zotzen-lib https://github.com/opendeved/zotzen-lib, https://www.npmjs.com/package/zotzen-lib

(The above tools can also be installed as command-line tools (CLI) with npm -g.)

And a web application

• zotzen-web https://github.com/opendeved/zotzen-web

zotero-lib

Install this library with

npm install zotero-lib

or as CLI

sudo npm install -g zotero-lib

View entry on https://www.npmjs.com/package/zotero-lib

Used by

This library is currently used by

• https://github.com/OpenDevEd/zotero-lib
• https://github.com/OpenDevEd/zotzen-lib
• https://github.com/OpenDevEd/zotzen-web

This code builds on earlier code for https://github.com/OpenDevEd/zotero-cli, which was developed by @bjohas, @retorquere and @a1diablo.

Use of the library and the CLI

The directory tests/ contains a number of tests that illustrate the use of the npm library. The file tests/test_cli.sh has examples for use of the library from the command line.

Also see:

https://github.com/tnajdek/zotero-api-client (With hindsight we might have built on zotero-api-client - we might still rebuild our code to use zotero-api-client.)

CLI Documentation:

The zotero-cli allows you to access zoter from cmd line, it allows you to automate redundant taskse easily

Installation

npm install -g zotero-lib

OR

yarn global add zotero-lib

Basic usage

Help

zotero-lib -h

OR

zotero-lib --help

This will print help for all commands and options accepted by zotero-lib

Version

zotero-lib -v

OR

zotero-lib --version

This will print the version of cli you have installed

Item

Items

Create

This allows you to create item(s). You can create items in two different ways by providing following arguments

• --files - this accepts text files containing json
• --items - this accepts items as json string

for example

zotero-lib create items --files filepath.txt
zotero-lib create items --items '{"title": "zotero item"}'

Update

Collection

Collections

Publications

Tags

Attachment

Types

Groups

Fields

Searches

Key

Field

Update-url

Get-doi

Update-doi

Enclose-item

Attach-link

Attach-note

Kciaka

Bibliography