Documentation of Zotero's SOAP API?

felwert

Hi!

I just started trying to write a gedit plugin that inserts citations into LaTeX documents and exports the bibliography as BibTeX. The easiest way seems to be the use of the generic BibTeX style (http://www.zotero.org/styles/bibtex/dev).

Now I just read through the Zotero.py from the integration/python subversion directory, but it seems to contain very much Office specific stuff. So I want to write a small, simple function that calls Zotero's RPC API to get the relevant information, i.e., a formatted citation and a formatted bibliography (which, in the case of the BibTeX citation style, are the BibTeX key and the bibliography in BibTeX format).

Now I just couldn't find any information which methods I must call for this. I tried to search through the Zotero.py and integration.js, but I couldn't really find what was relevant to me. Can anyone point me to the methods I have to call?

In general, maybe a documentation of the SOAP API would be useful, so others could start writing plugins for different applications.

Thanks,
Frederik

dstillman

There's no documentation on this currently, but you can run Zotero with debug output to view the SOAP requests and responses, which should get you pretty far along.

dstillman

The alternative, if you wanted to be able to use the more full-featured BibTeX translator, would be to require MozRepl, which provides a telnet interface to the internal JavaScript environment. But if the BibTeX style is sufficient, SOAP is probably the way to go.

felwert

Thank you, I'll try the debug option.

I think a citation style is the right way for me, as it allows to easily add new BibTeX export schemes (e.g., biblatex) without having to change Zotero's internals.