ZoteroBib - Importing from library database

sryder3 · September 9, 2019

Hi, I looked around a bit and it seems like there is no way to import citations from a library database into ZoteroBib directly - like taking a list of sources saved in a database and scraping it all into zbib.

Is that the case? I just wanted to verify, if so.

(The students I work with don't really use the Zotero program, just the website.)

Thanks!

adamsmith · September 9, 2019

That's correct, yes. That'd be the type of thing where using Zotero would be required/necessary.

sryder3 · September 9, 2019

Thank you very much!

dstillman · September 9, 2019

We haven't documented it yet, but ZoteroBib can take a URL with either a webpage that Zotero/ZoteroBib supports or a direct link to a supported metadata format:

https://zbib.org/import?q=[url]

So if you're responsible for the library database, or can talk to the people who are, you could add buttons to save records to ZoteroBib.

I think we currently only support the first record in a linked metadata file, though I'm not sure there's a good reason for that. If we supported multiple, it'd be possible to allow exporting multiple items via checkmark/library functionality.