This document provides information about creating Zotero translators using scaffolding. It discusses how scaffolding uses XPaths to tell Zotero where to find information in HTML, and how translators allow users to specify item types. It also mentions detecting item pages, extracting titles and other metadata, attaching files like images, and using regular expressions to clean metadata. Resources for creating translators with the scaffold tool and documentation are listed.

1. Thisisexamplecodeforascrapertypetranslator.ItpullsinformaonfromawebpagetopopulateaZoteroitem’smetadata.
BuiltinscaffolditusesXPathstotellZoterowhereintheHTMLinformaoncanbefound.
Zoterohasmanyitemtypes,thisallowstheusertospecifywhattypeofitemZoteroshouldassign.
Completelistofitemtypesavailableathp://aurimasv.github.io/z2csl/typeMap.xml
DetecttellsZoteroifthepageitiscurrentlyonisonethatcontainsapotenalitem.
TitletellsZoterowheretheitem’stlecanbefound,thisisarequiredfield.
Zoterocanalsoaachitemstoitsrecords.Thefirstitemissimplyasnapshotofthewebpage.
Thesecondistheimagefilefoundonthewebpage,
whichallowsZoterotodownloadandassociateimageswithitsrecords.
Youcanassignpathsforallthe
metadataelementsthataZotero
itemtypehas.Thelistofelements
canbefoundatthesamelinkfrom
above.
ThemulscraperiswhatallowsZoterotoaddmulpleentriesfromasearchresultspage.
YouneedtoaddadetectsoZoteroknowsitisonaresultspage.
Wheretofindthe tlesofeachitemtogeneratethelistofpossibleentries,
andtheURLthatleadstotheindividualitempagewhereitcanscrapethemetadata.
YouusewhatareknownasregularexpressionstotellZoterohowtocleanupthemetadata
Creatingzoterotranslatorsusingscaffold

2. Resourcesforcreatingzoterotranslators
Firefox
www.mozilla.org
ZoteroforFirefox
www.zotero.org
Scaffold
www.zotero.org/support/dev/translators/scaffold
HHowtoWriteaZoteroTranslator(nowoutofdatebutslluseful)
h p://niche-canada.org/member-projects/zotero-guide/chapter1.html
Updatestothepreviousguide
h p://www.zotero.org/support/dev/how_to_write_a_zotero_translator_plusplus
ZoteroDocumentaon
h p://www.zotero.org/support/dev/translators/coding
h p://www.zotero.org/support/dev/translators/framework