Upgrade StorageURL management in library, and export
I am mainly using this for maintaining a collection of web references.
I entered them both from [Windows] desktop saved references (site.url), and from browser tabs.
I want to export this Zotero collection to a set of active and readable URLs.
With the online web version of the library, clicking the “export” icon does no do anything.
With the desktop application,
• Exporting to cvs is the only version that I find actually gives the original URLs for entries,
But it only exports the first 7 of the library (n=173).
• An RDF export, lists file names, but not the URLs in the saves reference.
• Export as bookmarks does show the URLs, but not the folder structure,
and similarly only exports the first few entries.
• Exporting as a CSL-JSON does export everything, but again shows only file information, not the URL which the desktop file represented for most items. (Some do get a full description including the URL.
The difference seems to be if they were tagged as “documents” and added to the library instead of “webpage”.
Some of them were just drag-and-drop of desktop URL files, some others were copied from browser tabs..
.url files are tagged as documents, and do not show the actual URL link.
Items D&D from browser are labelled “webpage” and do show the URL.
This raises a basic question, if I have desktop URL references (of course as files [Windows]),, saving them in a Library is hen different that entering a browser window tag, and instead saves the actual file?
If so, is here a simple way to save desktop saves web references into a Library, other than opening hem in a browser and D&D the tab?
Although I found an example (in reddit) of using a web URL to the API for exports, I couldn’t get that to work.
Example: https://api.zotero.org/groups/2352922/items?limit=10&start=0
→ will result in Zotero API JSON.
I entered them both from [Windows] desktop saved references (site.url), and from browser tabs.
I want to export this Zotero collection to a set of active and readable URLs.
With the online web version of the library, clicking the “export” icon does no do anything.
With the desktop application,
• Exporting to cvs is the only version that I find actually gives the original URLs for entries,
But it only exports the first 7 of the library (n=173).
• An RDF export, lists file names, but not the URLs in the saves reference.
• Export as bookmarks does show the URLs, but not the folder structure,
and similarly only exports the first few entries.
• Exporting as a CSL-JSON does export everything, but again shows only file information, not the URL which the desktop file represented for most items. (Some do get a full description including the URL.
The difference seems to be if they were tagged as “documents” and added to the library instead of “webpage”.
Some of them were just drag-and-drop of desktop URL files, some others were copied from browser tabs..
.url files are tagged as documents, and do not show the actual URL link.
Items D&D from browser are labelled “webpage” and do show the URL.
This raises a basic question, if I have desktop URL references (of course as files [Windows]),, saving them in a Library is hen different that entering a browser window tag, and instead saves the actual file?
If so, is here a simple way to save desktop saves web references into a Library, other than opening hem in a browser and D&D the tab?
Although I found an example (in reddit) of using a web URL to the API for exports, I couldn’t get that to work.
Example: https://api.zotero.org/groups/2352922/items?limit=10&start=0
→ will result in Zotero API JSON.
I'll mention the entry types here:
1) I am saving largely references to papers and websites.
Some of them are inserted into the library by D&D a url from the desktop, others by D&D a tab from a browser.
I had assumed (wrongly) that both would work the same, but they don't.
File.url entries show as a document (attachment), and opening them goes to the URL in the file.
https://s3.amazonaws.com/zotero.org/images/forums/u16799181/clxd4plawdaug3v6bq8i.png
Link (tab) entries are encoded as WebPage, but opening them does not go to the URL link, although a right-click on the icon and "show online" does open the URL..
And it also shows the web page contents in a preview ("attachment"), and will open that.
https://s3.amazonaws.com/zotero.org/images/forums/u16799181/y58hcmevd61an7yggauu.png
Then also (of course) the document entries are uploaded to the server, and take up space.
I assume that this is a known behavior, although it surprised me.
Is there a better way to add desktop web links as items to a library?
Some content items also save URL information, and will open the URL - ("Video Recording").
2) because of this, in an export or various dumps, documents do not show a URL, but file information.
3) so from all of this, I was looking for a way to export a library to get a listing of all the webpage (URL) references.
Most of the exports I tried, only gave a few of the total (n=172) list.
Some gave a full list, but with documents as files, not the URL they represent.
https://s3.amazonaws.com/zotero.org/images/forums/u16799181/xlb7m63h10mhy83t5f9q.png
Why does for example, "export as bookmarks" or as csv only five a few of the items?
** Is there a better way to do this?
TIA