Install

# install dependencies
pip install -r requirements.txt

Command-line client for Zotero

Right now, only export to BibTeX is implemented.

This utility is using the Pyzotero library.

usage: cli-zotero.py [-h] [--key API-KEY] (--group ID | --user ID | --id NAME)
                     (--list-collections [TITLE] | --collection-to-bibtex COLLECTION-ID)
                     [--dump FILENAME] [--limit N]

Command-line client for Zotero

optional arguments:
  -h, --help            show this help message and exit
  --key API-KEY         Zotero API key (https://www.zotero.org/settings/keys)
                        Or specify in [core] of configuration file.
  --group ID            Group ID (https://www.zotero.org/groups/)
  --user ID             User ID (https://www.zotero.org/settings/keys)
  --id NAME             Identity specified in [identities] in configuration
                        file.
  --list-collections [TITLE]
                        List your collections (title partial match)
  --collection-to-bibtex COLLECTION-ID
                        Export given collection to BibTeX
  --dump FILENAME       Dump retrieved data through pprint to FILENAME
  --limit N             Set internal limit of the queries

Users can create configuration file ~/.config/cli-zotero.conf to store their keys. The file uses typical INI format and can look like this:

[core]
key = your-zotero-key-here

[identities]
work = group 123456
me = user 98765

With this file in place, dumping a collection to BibTeX is rather straightforward.

# List collections matching given title
./cli-zotero.py --id work --list-collections search-term-here
# Notice the six-character long code and copy it to the second command
./cli-zotero.py --id work --collection-to-bibtex collection-id-here >refs.bib

ozanyolyapar/cli-zotero

Install

Command-line client for Zotero