Zotero API

Zotero API

The zotero documentation isn’t the best, but neither am I the best reader. @textpotential helped point me to the section on Paging and sorting, which was the key to getting the full list of Zotero’s bibliography.

Now I can page through the process by adjusting the number of results.

curl -X GET 'https://api.zotero.org/groups/2356093/items?limit=30&start=60' 

Paging and Searching

The two things that were missing on this post is paging and searching. You can limit the type of records that are returned through itemType=-attachment which will remove the attachments, so only bib records will be returned.

https://api.zotero.org/groups/2356093/items?format=json&itemType=-attachment

Also, the header provides additional insights into the library and collections as a whole.

fetch('https://api.zotero.org/groups/2356093/items?format=json&itemType=-attachment')
    .then(res=>{
        for (const pair of res.headers.entries()){
            console.log(pair[0], ' -> ', pair[1])
            }
        })

This code will produce the results:

content-type  ->  application/json debugger eval code:1:148
last-modified-version  ->  25 debugger eval code:1:148
link  ->  <https://api.zotero.org/groups/2356093/items?itemType=-attachment&start=25>; rel="next", <https://api.zotero.org/groups/2356093/items?itemType=-attachment&start=25>; rel="last", <https://www.zotero.org/groups/2356093/items>; rel="alternate" debugger eval code:1:148
total-results  ->  32 debugger eval code:1:148
zotero-api-version  ->  3

This will alow easy inclusion of links to the next set of search results, as well as total calculations for the items in the collection.