Zotero MCP Server

Enables semantic search and management of Zotero reference libraries using PostgreSQL with pg-vector and OpenAI/Ollama embeddings. Provides AI-powered search, full-text extraction, metadata access, annotations, notes, tags, and collections management.

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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.

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Open source with a license and README

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You'll be asked for 3 credentials: ZOTERO_API_KEY, ZOTERO_DB_PASSWORD, OPENAI_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.

configZOTERO_LIBRARY_ID

configZOTERO_LIBRARY_TYPE

🔐 secretZOTERO_API_KEY

configZOTERO_LOCAL

configZOTERO_LOG_LEVEL

configZOTERO_DB_HOST— "": "your_host",

configZOTERO_DB_PORT

configZOTERO_DB_NAME— "": "zotero_mcp",

configZOTERO_DB_USER

🔐 secretZOTERO_DB_PASSWORD

configZOTERO_EMBEDDING_PROVIDER— "": "ollama",

🔐 secretOPENAI_API_KEY

configOPENAI_BASE_URL

configOLLAMA_HOST— "": "your_ollama_host"

configVIRTUAL_ENV

configXDG_CONFIG_HOME

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commit: b0adb60b27fd4a31f9eb95c28ea8a785ce68e9cc

code hash: ee8d34d67081ca62ff50f2093eb3855540219bfb3db2ea4cde198183f73bb373

verified: 6/18/2026, 10:40:42 AM

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