Any way to switch all tags to all lower case? Or ignore case in tags?

tomgoodell · October 23, 2021

I have a lot of tags that begin with an upper case letter. But when I clip web pages the tags that come in are all lower case, so I end up with the same tag twice (e.g., Media and media). Is there any way to convert all tags to all lower case? Or tell Zotero to ignore case? I'd prefer the former but the latter would also work.

Any ideas would be much appreciated!

russlindquist · May 3, 2023

Hi Tom, I would like the same!

damnation · May 3, 2023

I think you should be able to do this with JavaScript. See "Batch editing" on: https://www.zotero.org/support/dev/client_coding/javascript_api

alequa · June 19, 2023

It can be easily done with the pyzotero client. You can find the documentation here:
https://pyzotero.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

The script below will update ALL your tags except those in the skip_tags list. Use it with caution. It also splits all tags that have more than a word. It saves both the old tag and the new one. That is, you have ("my tag word"), and you get ("my","tag", "word", "my tag word").

The API_KEY and LIBRARY_ID are private. See the documentation.

Script:
https://gist.github.com/aquaresima/7e3d7ef805cdadc4d548d773940d9ead