lorin / zotero-bb

Script for randomly selecting a paper from a zotero collection

zotero-bb

A script I use to randomly select a paper from my "To read" collection.

Credentials

The script expects the following environment variables to be set:

ZOTERO_API_KEY
ZOTERO_USER_ID

Getting the credentials

The user id is a numerical id, not your Zotero login name.

You can find your user id and create an api key at https://www.zotero.org/settings/keys.

Setting the credentials

I set these in my ~/.localrc file:

export ZOTERO_API_KEY=...
export ZOTERO_USER_ID=...