Package 'zoteror'

Title: Handle Zotero Local Database
Description: Makes a connection to the (local) Zotero database (SQLite) to extract bibliographic references metadata.
Authors: Nicolas Casajus [aut, cre, cph] (ORCID: <https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5537-5294>)
Maintainer: Nicolas Casajus <[email protected]>
License: GPL (>= 2)
Version: 0.0.1
Built: 2026-05-18 08:40:45 UTC
Source: https://github.com/FRBCesab/zoteror

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Retrieve data from Zotero database

Description

Retrieves references metadata from Zotero local database (SQLite).

Usage

get_zotero_data(path = "~/zotero")

Arguments

path

a character of length 1. The folder containing the Zotero database named zotero.sqlite.

Value

A data.frame with references in row and the following variables:

  • item_id: the identifier of the publication in the Zotero database;

  • library_type: the type of the library. Can be user (My library) or group (Group libraries);

  • group: the name of the group library;

  • collection: the name of the library collection;

  • category: the category of the publication (article, book, book_section, report, etc.);

  • year: the year of the publication;

  • title: the title of the publication;

  • author: the authors of the publication;

  • journal: the journal of the publication (only for article);

  • book_title: the title of the book (only for book_section);

  • editor: the editors of the book (only for book and book_section);

  • abstract: the abstract of the publication;

  • volume: the volume of the publication (only for article);

  • issue: the issue of the publication (only for article);

  • pages: the pages of the publication;

  • publisher: the publisher name;

  • place: the location of the publisher;

  • institution: the institution name;

  • doi: the DOI (Digital Object Identifier) of the publication;

  • url: the URL of the publication;

  • note: the annotations associated to the publication (only the PUBID is retrieved).

Examples

## Not run: 
references <- zoteror::get_zotero_data()

## End(Not run)