Add item URI to CSV export

infophile

Hello,

Is it possible to add a field in the CSV export which contains the corresponding URI for each item (for instance zotero://select/library/items/AU34DFCZ) ?

I assume we have to modify the file CSV.js in the folder translators/ but I don't how exactly.

Thanks

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Related posts:
- https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/91170/add-zotero-uri-to-ris-export
- https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/73893/zotero-select-for-collections
- https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/comment/370804/#Comment_370804

adamsmith

The Zotero URI and the select link are different things:
zotero://select/library/items/WE6PTGIK selects an item in the local library and
https://www.zotero.org/users/2433/items/WE6PTGIK
is a unique global identifier that identifies the item together with its library (the 2433 in this case is my userID; yours is 4629042) and will generally link to the item in the online library, though it's principally an identifier, not a locator, so I don't think that's guaranteed to be super stable.

Since the item key (the last part of both of these) is part of the CSV, these can be trivially generated in Excel (simply by concating), which, unless you are using this in some frequent, automated workflow, is going to be easier than modifying the CSV.js export translator (though that isn't super hard either).
Is that sufficient for your purposes?

infophile

OK thank you for the explanation!

Since I only use Zotero on my computer I just want to access to the local link and so I just need the item key (which I didn't notice it was the first field in the CSV export!).

So it's perfect thank you!

A last question to be sure: these unique id (here WE6PTGIK) won't change if I export/import my Zotero library right? I need to insure the correspondance between my Obsidian notes and the Zotero bibliography, so I put in my notes the select link (zotero://select/library/items/WE6PTGIK). I think it is better than putting the citation key of the article, which can be modified later, isn't it?

adamsmith

A last question to be sure: these unique id (here WE6PTGIK) won't change if I export/import my Zotero library right?

You should basically never export/import your Zotero library (if you need to transfer it between two computers there are alternatives) not least because it does indeed change all item keys: from Zotero's perspective, importing an item creates a new item with a new item key.

infophile

OK, I'll just copy the Zotero folder, since it is too big (>10 Go) to be sync with Zotero servers.

Thank you again!