gipplab / zotero-backup

zotero-backup

Note: This repository was forked from https://github.com/maxharp3r/zotero-backup.

Turn a zotero collection into a bibtex file for archival

This code basically just downloads a bibliography using the Zotero API, It asks Zotero politely whether the bibliography has changed since the last run, to keep things lightweight unless things have changed.

requirements

• python 3.7.x
• gnu make
• zotero API key (create one at https://www.zotero.org/settings/keys)

install + configure

You probably should use a virtualenv, then:

pip install -r requirements.txt

Edit .env directly or create .env.local to override the settings. In particular, you will need to override the zotero api key, the zotero search parameters, and the output paths.

If you're querying a group, you can find its id by visiting its page, then inspecting the URL for its RSS feed.

run

make

Probably, you'll want to run make in a cron job to keep the output up to date.

If you need to change the settings and re-run:

make clean
make

zotero-backup's Issues

merge with bib repo

• Filter for specific tags and create biblatex exports for entries in those tags

Switch Travis to GitHub Actions

This repo is burning the remaining credits of our travis account. We should switch to GitHub actions or think about an upgrade plan if thats (for any reason) not possible.

@nmeuschke @physikerwelt Any concerns switching to GitHub actions?

Find bibentries from sematicscholar

Titles should not end with | {{Semantic Scholar}}

document process to add new libraries

Figure out why testRepo stopped working 2 months ago

Change processing logic

https://github.com/ag-gipp/zotero-backup/blob/ee128ba3ecb48170247dbee4bc375aa225807a08/download.py#L60

with JSON there will always be a response body, but we need to process the response body or the Total-Results header in order to proceed.

Get files for publication lists and copy them to bib repo

Files uploaded to the subdirectory bib/preprints in the bib repo in the ag-gipp github org and they will be available from https://ag-gipp.github.io/bib/preprints/
The goal is that users can upload a preprint to Zotero and this file is then uploaded directly and correctly linked.

Estimated effort 1 day

integrate https://github.com/yuchenlin/rebiber

This should be run during the bibfile creation workflow

Wait one day and see if updates work

make repo public?

ensure that parallel jobs do not create fast forward pushes

see https://travis-ci.com/github/ag-gipp/zotero-backup/jobs/353436778#L1921

Make use of better bibtex suggestions

Better bibtex provides suggestions on bibtex quality. Maybe we can automatically evaluate the report

% == BibLateX quality report for Erdos57:
% Unexpected field 'publisher'
% Unexpected field 'zmnumber'
% ? Possibly abbreviated journal title Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen. Proceedings. Series A. Indagationes Mathematicae

https://github.com/ag-gipp/20EmsMathOcrZbl/blob/0b05ea28601c626f3c6499d7e731d4fbc144b3e8/zotero.bib#L124-L127