Reference implementation for API-use (e.g. simple HTML+JS)

[Bjoern Hassler]

I'm wondering whether there's a 'reference implementation' for the use of the API? The Zotero web-part is here (https://github.com/zotero/web-library, would be nice to link this from https://www.zotero.org/support/dev/web_api/v3/start).

However, it's of course fairly complex. I was thinking more of a simple HTML/js. You pass the js a library id and item/collection id, and it produces the corresponding HTML. (Ideally with page metadata/DC/Highwire as well as COinS/unAPI). Some thoughts also written up here (from forum discussion) http://bjohas.de/go/metadata-and-zotero-api (Google Doc, feel free to ask for edit access).

I suppose one could take some bits from https://github.com/zotero/web-library to achieve this - but then it's quite big, so not immediately clear to me which bits to pull out.

Does anybody want to collaborate on that?

Thanks,

Bjoern

[fcheslack]

I'm not sure what the end product pages you'd like to produce look like exactly, but

https://www.npmjs.com/package/zotero-api-client

implements Zotero API usage in a convenient way with little abstraction on top, and in modern javascript. That's probably the cleanest way to get started using the Zotero API from javascript currently (however you will still need to be familiar with how the API works and the available options). The JSON objects from v3 of the Zotero API are perfectly convenient to work with directly.

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[Bjoern Hassler]

That's great - thank you.

It would be great if this could be added to https://www.zotero.org/support/dev/web_api/v3/start (What's the policy for wiki editing? Happy to do so myself...)

Is there a simple deployment of it somewhere that I could look at? (Ideally, rather than node.js) 

Bjoern

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[Bjoern Hassler]

Hello again,

I've put this together:
https://github.com/bjohas/ZoteroApiSimple/blob/master/app.js

A query like this {collection: '2GFF835P'} works as expected, but for {collection: '2GFF835P', item: 'WBR6SFD7'} I couldn't figure out how to just get the item, i.e. the equivalent of  https://api.zotero.org/groups/2129771/items/WBR6SFD7.

Any help would be appreciated!

Bjoern

[Bjoern Hassler]

Hello all,

Just to say that — thanks to input from Tom —  https://github.com/bjohas/ZoteroApiSimple now kinda works. The UI is very basic, but you can browse through collections and items (for public groups). Items are supplied with COinS, which are picked up by the Zotero ccnnector. 

Happy to pass on what I learned, if there are any questions!

Bjoern