zotero-mcp

Item: zotero-mcp
Rating: 67
Author: M8ven

Enables AI assistants to search and retrieve metadata, abstracts, and notes from a user's Zotero library through tools like search, get item, and list collections.

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// key findings

✅

No credential exfiltration, no sensitive file access, no obfuscation

Static analysis found nothing flowing your secrets to unexpected places.

🔐

You'll be asked for 1 credential: ZOTERO_API_KEY

These are read from process.env at runtime. Make sure you trust where they’ll be sent.

// required environment variables

This server reads these from process.env. You'll be asked to provide them before it can run.

🔐 secretZOTERO_API_KEY— yourkey ZOTERO_USER_ID=yourid python server.py

configZOTERO_USER_ID— ZOTERO_API_KEY=yourkey =yourid python server.py

configZOTERO_LIBRARY_TYPE

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commit: a2819828921f5f2560c6a9d288ac89d27db7b1e7

code hash: 31936175fa91924e0e761f21373285a6e7889fd5a417451b3427f656f4c27d73

verified: 6/23/2026, 10:36:50 AM

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