Adding All Sources From a Google Alert

laura.earle · February 4, 2022

I have google alerts set up so I get an email with several sources everyday related to a certain topic. I'd like to add all these sources at once. Zotero doesn't detect multiple sources on my page from the email, and using anystyle.io only pulls out the titles (which isn't all that helpful as I need it to link to the articles online as well). Is there a way to do this or do I have to add each one individually?

adamsmith · February 4, 2022

I don't really see how we'd do this -- the google alert content is only in the email body, isn't it? It's not actually on any webpage I can get to (you can click on the relevant search string on the bottom of the email and that'll take you to search results that you can import, but they're not necessarily equivalent to the results)

DWL-SDCA · February 4, 2022

I use 6 Google Alerts daily with Zotero to discover recently published items relevant to my needs. I do what @adamsmith recommended and have done so for years and years. I link through to the item and import it from the publisher's site. This assures getting the best-available metadata. Adding the alert items one-at-a-time is more efficient than you might think.

Also, I find that about 15 percent of the items from each of my alerts are wholly irrelevant -- obviously so simply by reading the titles.

I have my email, browser, and Zotero all open simultaneously in their own window and positioned such that I can easily switch among the programs. After doing this for a short time you will find that this technique will quickly and efficiently capture the items you need.