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