Zotero MCP Server

Item: Zotero MCP Server
Rating: 71
Author: M8ven

Gives Claude full read/write access to your Zotero reference library, enabling search, collection management, and article addition through natural language.

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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— "": "your-api-key",

configZOTERO_USER_ID— "": "your-user-id",

configZOTERO_LIB_TYPE— "": "user"

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commit: 0a9c3c4e0a0911ccce772693ed5069c18af3ad12

code hash: cf37eb1b604acdd669f065be8779a6217e1b1fedf7bce8ff08590a6b754324dd

verified: 7/4/2026, 9:12:16 AM

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