zotero-translators

Description

The citation manager Zotero provides a collection of translators that manage detection, import and export of reference items.

However, these translators depend on the Zotero app's environment and are not standalone. There exists the translation-server project to run them in Node.js, within an HTTP server.

This project hooks up into the translation-server module to provide access to the translators as regular JS functions, without the need to set up an HTTP server.

Usage

const translators = require("zotero-translators")

translators
  .search("http://dx.doi.org/10.3109/07434618.2014.906498")
  .then(references => console.log(references))

Installation

$ npm install zotero-translators
# or
$ yarn add zotero-translators

This module is made for Node.js. Might work in browser, but might not be optimal.

API

The API is really straightforward, you can check it in the typings file. If there is a need to further document or clarify the API, file an issue.

Known issues

It might work on browsers, through webpack, browserify, parcel-bundler, or similar. However, it has not been tested with any of them, so exercise caution. Also, on load, this module includes all of the more than 500 translators that Zotero has. This might not be optimal for web browsing applications. Further discussion here.

It is also missing the web function. Further discussion here.