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    I have tagged items according to projects I am working on, and I would like a way to automatically extract these items to a bibtex file. I know that I can select these items, and then click on export, but it would be very useful to me to be able to do this via a script or some other automatic way. Any ideas about how to do this?
    • CommentAuthorTjowens
    • CommentTimeMar 20th 2008
     
    If you are using a Mac you might give George Mackerron's bibdesk extension a try see http://mackerron.com/
    • CommentAuthoramat
    • CommentTimeApr 14th 2008
     
    I'm looking for such a feature, too. I would like to run zoteros bibtex export from
    a makefile. How complex would it be to achieve that?
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    Amat: There's not really any way to trigger internal Zotero functionality from outside Firefox at the moment. We eventually hope to create an API for external applications to use (and/or the ability to use command-line flags to Firefox to trigger Zotero operations), but nothing like that exists at the moment.

    If you wanted to rig something up, you could create a Zotero plugin that listens on a particular port, triggers a BibTeX export, and returns the result (for example as a SOAP response). This is how the word processor plugins work. Providing access to the full Zotero data layer would be a much more complicated proposition, but for a specialized task like yours it would be relatively simple to create such a tool.
    • CommentAuthorafalon
    • CommentTimeApr 15th 2008
     
    Hi together,

    I am also interested in a bibtex export. And if needed I'd be even open for implementing such an export myself...

    Is there anything in the queue - since tex/bibtex is quite commonly used in the natural science domains (formulas are nowhere as nice and easy as in latex ;) ) this would possibly boost accepance of the zotero-plugin.

    Cheers, afalon
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    afalon: Zotero already supports exporting to BibTeX. This thread is about automating the process.

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