Readwise

divingfree

I can find a plugin for Readwise. I there any way to import references from Zotero into Reawsie other than copying and pasting? THANKS

adamsmith

Probably not, not -- if there is, it would come from Readwise so you'd have to ask them.

divingfree

I asked Readwise. They suggested I reach out to the Zotero community. Readwise do have an API for developers.

mpbfgy

I would also like to see a plugin for Readwise. Their API is documented here:
https://readwise.io/api_deets

dgrobinson

+1 to the hope for an integration.

Is there an intention to make zoero's new, centrally-stored pdf highlights accessible via an API? This seems like one illustrative use case for such a system.

adamsmith

They are already accessible via API, that part of the API is just not fully documented yet (given that it's beta and thus possibly subject to change)

emcuttsy

I also reached out to Readwise about this and they suggested asking for an integration here. Without one I'm trapped between being able to handle my highlights well or being able to handle my metadata well. With an integration, I'd have one system for everything I read. As is, I'm split between Zotero and Readwise in a very annoying way.

API is here: https://readwise.io/api_deets :)

tianbing

+1 Hope the integretion come soon

ealizadeh

I just published a Python library (Zotero2Readwise) that retrieves all Zotero annotations* and notes and push them to your Readwise.

Check it out here:
https://github.com/e-alizadeh/Zotero2Readwise

Two main features of this library are:
- The tags from Zotero is also passed to Readwise.
- The library supports updating an existing Readwise highlight. So, if you run the library multiple times, it will only push the new highlights to Readwise and updates existing ones if there is any update in the note, annotations, or tags (I'm passing the Zotero annotation URL to Readwise).

--> Please note that this only works for annotations on the Zotero's new PDF reader and note editor as they are saved in Zotero databases (see https://www.zotero.org/support/pdf_reader_preview).
This library won't work if you use another PDF editor to save your annotations, these annotations won't be available in Zotero's database, and hence not retrievable!
I would highly recommend you to use the new PDF reader and note editor. There is even an iOS app (beta) for Zotero that you can now annotate directly from your Zotero iOS app!

divingfree

Thank you SO much @ealizadeh. I haven't intalled yet but it's on my todo list.

bcmorrison3

@ealizadeh - Your python script was brilliant but it stalled after about 30 annotations and hasn't been working for me for a while. Can you take a look? I really hope you get this working, it literally completes Zotero.

orhoncan

hi, i have a question about something i can't figure out as i don't know python much.
when i export annotations to readwise, the annotation tags are included along the notes and exported as .#, there are scripts to remove those characters but i couldn't find a solution to export those as tags directly. I also migrate highlights from rw to obsidian and again, couldn't find a way to modify them with a bulk action using obsidian too. am i missing something? thanks.

orhoncan

if anyone bumps into this topic with the same problem i mentionied above, i solved it by replacing .# with # when exporting highlight notes to obsidian from readwise when zotero highlights are included.
{{highlight_note|replace(".#","#")}}

Haleraisers

I'm not savvy enough to follow the directions that are there at github...I thought I was doing it right, but no dice. Anyone willing to help me out? We zoom I'll buy you a coffee?

kiwimw

Anyone know of any updates on this integration? I'm in the same boat of having an annoying split between Readwise and zotero (and Obsidian half the time). Would be great to get everything stored in Zotero and then export it to obsidian/in-text citations.