How to add a bibliography via Safari?

AdeleEff
I want to add a bibliography item via Safari. This item happens to be a pdf, but I do not want to save the pdf to Zotero (I have no space left), all I want to do is save the bibliography item and URL.

This is what I see for the Zotero button for this page:

https://s3.amazonaws.com/zotero.org/images/forums/u5740425/lpfwyade2fku3u1abtgh.png

It saves the pdf to Zotero but does not create a bibliography item from the pdf.


There used to be a handy Zotero web page for this but it disappeared? Or moved?
  • dstillman
    edited 13 days ago
    Nothing has changed here. If there's an article page, save from that instead, or use an DOI/ISBN/etc. via Add Item by Identifier from within the app.

    You can also always save files to Zotero even if you're out of online storage space. If you don't care about syncing files, just turn off file syncing from the Sync settings.

    https://www.zotero.org/support/adding_items_to_zotero#standalone_attachments_and_parent_items
  • AdeleEff
    edited 13 days ago
    Please explain
    "You can also always save files to Zotero even if you're out of online storage space."

    Where do these files get saved?

    In the example above, all the Zotero button does is save the pdf (somewhere?). It creates a blank biblio item with the pdf attachment. I don't want to save the pdf, I want to create a bibliography (and citation) item for it.

    There is no article page, there is no DOI/ISBN, there is no identifier that Zotero recognizes. It's an official document, e.g. https://www.accessdata.fda.gov/drugsatfda_docs/label/2011/018644s043lbl.pdf

    There is no parent item to which I can associate this "child".

    Where is the Zotero web page to add an item by URL? This used to add an item pretty well by scraping info from the target page. Thank you.
  • adamsmith
    Add the PDF to Zotero, then right-click --> Create parent item and add the information.
    The file gets saved to the Zotero data directory on your harddisk.

    The page to save to Zotero via URL is https://www.zotero.org/save but it's strictly inferior to using your browser connector and fails on PDF links such as the one you have above.
  • AdeleEff
    Thank you. I do not want to save the pdf anywhere, not on my hard drive either.

    What I want to do is bypass the manual entry required to create the parent item, which is what https://www.zotero.org/save does, albeit imperfectly.

    Thanks for the URL https://www.zotero.org/save, I wasn't able to find it.
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