Google Apps Integration

mlindstone · January 12, 2011

Would be really great if Zotero could develop an API for integration of Google Apps with Zotero. Can someone tell me if this is already available or under development?

ajlyon · January 12, 2011

The direction here is backwards-- Google Apps needs an API for Zotero to reliably interface with. In the meantime, the best that you can do is RTF scan (http://www.zotero.org/support/rtf_scan) or copy-and-paste.

mlindstone · January 12, 2011

Yes you are correct, the API would be for Google Apps to Zotero.....I'll post on the Google forum

Thanks!

Rintze · January 12, 2011

See e.g. http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/Google+Docs/thread?tid=12c63f69794657dd&hl=en

bdarcus · January 12, 2011

The wizfolio example in that thread is interesting though:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9W6NwW13fkw

Am guessing they use a JS bookmarklet sort of thing to provide the citation insertion, but have no clue how they encode the citation "field" for later updating. Googling around, I came across this API, but not sure if it's sufficient.

http://code.google.com/apis/documents/docs/developers_guide.html

Edit: ah, a comment says that "WizFolio doesn't work with the newest Google Docs version," which means the working version was probably building off the HTML-foundation of that GD version (perhaps using some kind of special span and class, say, to denote the updatable content?). The new version of GD is not based on HTML.

mrtimo · May 31, 2011

any update on this? Google docs has made a lot of improvements recently, is zotero integration one of them?

bdarcus · May 31, 2011

GD took a couple steps forward (new layout engine, killer comments, etc.), and a few step back (no styles support). I don't recall hearing anything about any new APIs that would for live citations, but would love to see them.

bdarcus · June 1, 2011

FWIW, I heard from someone at Google that it's possible to do this using App Script. My suggestion if anyone did want to look into coding this is to try to do it in such a way that the logic happened in Google Docs, and could pull in data from different places, including (but not limited to) Zotero.

bheavner · August 25, 2011

It's beyond my ability, but latex-lab allows one to do LaTex in google docs using the GData API. Maybe that's something useful?

https://code.google.com/p/latex-lab/

marnenlk · July 16, 2012

Has there been any further work on this? If not, I might start trying to write something.

adamsmith · July 16, 2012

nope, nothing new, so if you'd want to take a stab at this that'd be great. Direct any technical questions to the dev mailing list:
https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!forum/zotero-dev

hxrts · March 23, 2014

Now that google apps has add-ons, is there anyone giving some thought to making one for Zotero?

adamsmith · March 23, 2014

yes: https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!topic/zotero-dev/90ix5AiEOzQ
I'd be surprised if it happened quickly, though.

hxrts · March 23, 2014

thanks for your reply. was considering making a contribution so this is quite helpful.