Is it possible to change language information of numerous items at once ?

smteinturs

Hi,
I've received a huge Zotero collection (+1000 items) I have to clean up and organize.
Some metadatas are not harmonized, especially language informations : there are sometimes "en" or "English" or "Eng" (etc.) / "fr" "Français", and so on.
(I am not speaking about the local language or bibliographical language, but about the language information included in the "Info" pane for each item).

Is there a way to select several items and to change at once this specific information for all selected items ?
Thanks for your help.

adamsmith

Not easily at the moment, though this is generally planned (and as I understand reasonably high up on the list of priorities). That said, there is this:
https://www.zotero.org/support/dev/client_coding/javascript_api#batch_editing
which is quite doable if you know a bit of scripting (though will probably be a no-go if you don't).

smteinturs

Thanks for your quick answer ! (really wonder if you are a 7/24 forum reader and answerer... !) I'll have a look on this script.

smteinturs

Hi everyone,
I used sometimes the JavaScript API to script changes to my Zotero library (Execute.js) : https://www.zotero.org/support/dev/client_coding/javascript_api#batch_editing

As far as I understand, this Execute.js is no more compatible with Firefox Quantum (FF 57).
Is there another way to apply changes to a full Zotero 5 library ?

Thanks for your help.

bwiernik

You can use Python with PyZotero to access the Zotero API.