Zotero as a CMS?

Deane
Has anyone tried to do something silly like use Zotero as a CMS? If you had a blog-ish website that highlighted links from around the web with commentary, I can't help but think you could push the SQLite database to a server, wrap some scripts around it, and power a simple website with it.

Anyone done anything silly like this?
  • ajlyon
    The way to do this is to use the Zotero server API to pull your data from the Zotero server: http://www.zotero.org/support/dev/server_api

    There are libraries for accessing the data from PHP and Python, and there's code for Java and Obj-C as well, so there are plenty of things to start with and make such a thing happen.
  • fcheslack
    There is an example at https://github.com/fcheslack/libZotero/tree/master/phpexamples/zreports of approximating the Zotero client's report functionality but pulling data from the Zotero API.

    It would definitely be possible to do such a thing accessing a Zotero SQLite DB directly, but I'm not aware of anyone trying that before.
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