jZot - jQuery Zotero Display Plugin

thetaylor

I've just released a new zotero plugin for displaying your library on a webpage. This is still in early beta but its now at the stage where I'm happy to distribute it. Please let me know your thoughts.

http://thetaylor.co.uk/jzot/

dstillman

Nice. Note, though, that what you're calling an "API key" isn't an API key—that's just the user ID, so "userID" would be a better parameter name. As far as I can tell you don't actually support API keys yet, but if/when you do, you'll want to make it very clear that the keys should be configured to be read-only, since they'll be accessible to anyone in the page source.

(Also, if you do add a parameter for an API key, "key" or "apiKey" would make more sense than "api", since the whole thing is an API.)

(You also might not want to overload the "style" parameter with "co-author", since you might support other styles with a co-author mode. It'd probably make sense to make that a separate setting.)

thetaylor

Hi Dan, thanks for the reply. Apologies for the API confusion, that was historical from its initial test version.

I'll correct all the parameters so they are inline with the zotero read api standards.

Thanks again for the comments.

thetaylor

Version 0.0.2 has been released, it offers group support and is now standardised with the read api.

http://thetaylor.co.uk/jzot/

Rintze

Cool! Any plans to put the source code under version control on a site like GitHub.com?

thetaylor

Absolutely. Probably within the next week.

thetaylor

Version 0.0.3 released with ordering and resilience to network errors.

Greg

very nice tool! I think it has a lot of potential for personal webpages, course webpages etc. insofar as it makes it super easy for non-tech persons to have a reference list and easily change and update it using collections in zotero.

Maybe others disagree but I think you get much more exposure in the "General" category of the forum.