How to get citations from a list of URLs?

Functioning · 2026-03-05T00:34:56+00:00

I have many writeups that have citations just listed throughout in parentheses with the author name and year hyperlinked to the study URL (many of them are PubMed URLs). I need to make these into an actual AMA style bibliography. I can easily get a list of these URLs using AI, and can use ZoteroBib https://zbib.org/ to scrape citations from individual links, but this will take a long time to do so many entering them individually . Is there a way to do citations from URLs in bulk, like from a list of URLs or a some type of file with a list of them without having to enter them one by one?

tim820 · 2026-03-05T01:47:19+00:00

Do you have the PMIDs that you can get a list of (or DOI etc) ? If so you can pass the list to Add Item By Identifier.
https://www.zotero.org/support/adding_items_to_zotero#add_item_by_identifier

You can create a bibliography directly from items in Zotero with right-click Create Bibiography from Items ...
https://www.zotero.org/support/creating_bibliographies#right-click_to_create_citationbibliography

Functioning · 2026-03-05T22:36:37+00:00

That might potentially be helpful. I might be able to get a list of the PMIDs, will have to play around with that and see if possible.

So there's no way to get citations from a list of URLs in bulk then?

tim820 · 2026-03-06T05:46:53+00:00

You can only add items to Zotero from a list of URLS via a custom script, eg
https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/78638/unable-to-bulk-import-a-list-of-urls