zotero api

sarada.p
hello sir,
currently we are warking on a ejournal website there we want to implement zotero so that directly we can add any article to zotero and also can share that particular article with our friends through the grouping facility ,but we couldn't able to find any particular API for that can u please help us . so that we can tell our clients to install zotero for better experience .

Thanks & Regards
sarada prasad
  • zuphilip
    If your website exposes metadata in a way as described in https://www.zotero.org/support/dev/exposing_metadata then this should work smoothly with Zotero.
  • sarada.p
    Ours is actually a Journal Discovery Service product which indexes around 47000 ejournals. We wanted to check if we can provide 'Save to Zotero' button against the meta data of each of the article which we display in our product, so that users can save the metadata to Zotero directly through our application instead of viewing each article separately in publishers site and using the browser plugin to save the metadata.
  • zuphilip
    Zotero has a browser addon which will be responsible for saving metadata in your browser. If you want that this addon triggers on your website as well, then the easiest is to provide bibliographic data in some structured form, e.g. metatags, COinS (see link above).
  • sarada.p
    Could you please share your Email Id so that we can share the screenshot of what exactly we are trying to do and seek your inputs to achieve our objectives.
  • bwiernik
    It'd be better to save the screenshot to a free image hosting site (Dropbox, imgur, etc.) and post a link here.
  • sarada.p
    Please find the link to screenshot of our application.
    https://imgur.com/HJFC3gl

    We would like to provide 'Save to Zotero' button in our application in the location highlighted in the screenshot. Could you please suggest if we can get an API for this.
  • sarada.p
    Sorry to say but i didn't get any reply from any one from Zotero family, As mention in the above comment we want to integrate Zotero to our application and

    https://imgur.com/HJFC3gl

    this is the link to screenshot of our application and where we want to provide the "save to Zotero button"

    my humble request to Zotero team , please provide any API or any solution for this issue ., so that we can integrate Zotero to our application for everyone's benefit.
  • adomasven
    As per zuhilip's recommendation, you need to expose the metadata in a format that Zotero understands https://www.zotero.org/support/dev/exposing_metadata

    A good start is embedded metadata and COInS, and you can look into writing a translator if you need more specific item types. All of this is explained in the page linked above.
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