Running Zotero's scrapers externally

alterego
Suppose I had a URL and I wanted to see if Zotero could scrape it and output it to bibtex. Is it possible to do this by running firefox from the command line, or some other method?
  • dstillman
    edited January 14, 2009
    Check out MozRepl for command-line access to Zotero's JS API. If you need more help, zotero-dev is a better place to ask.
  • alterego
    Thnks dan, I'm running MozRepl now and its pretty cool.

    I probably wont have time to dig deeper until tomorrow. But could you provide some high-level method names that I might look for related to scraping and export?

    Cheers,
  • dstillman
    Take a look at Zotero_File_Exporter.prototype.save() in fileInterface.js or getContentFromItems() in quickCopy.js for examples and Zotero.Translate (which has a fairly extensive comment) in translate.js for the actual translation code.

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