Is there a way to import "only new" references into Zotero?

foldes.andrei · July 18, 2023

Hello,

I have a big bibliography I want to import into Zotero (from a bulk export of Semantic Scholar), that partially overlaps with records I already have.
I would like to avoid having to individually deduplicate each entry and would like to ask whether there is any way to only import new entries that aren't already in my library?

dstillman · July 19, 2023

No, sorry. Batch merging is coming soon, though.

tim820 · July 19, 2023

For big imports to an existing library, it might be worth writing some simple code to compare the new list to a list of the existing content, and extract only new ones to a new import file.

foldes.andrei · July 19, 2023

Thanks! Batch merging will be awesome.
Maybe I could use pyZotero for importing only new entries