gs-export

Google Scholar Export to Zotero

Export Google Scholar paper citation data via BibTeX extraction and push to Zotero desktop.

Arguments

$ARGUMENTS contains one or more data-cids (space-separated), e.g.:

• TFS2GgoGiNUJ — single paper
• TFS2GgoGiNUJ abc123XYZ def456UVW — batch export

Steps

Step 1: Get BibTeX for each paper

For each data-cid, perform 3 tool calls to bypass CORS:

1a. Fetch cite dialog to get BibTeX link (evaluate_script)

async () => {
  const cid = "DATA_CID_HERE";
  const resp = await fetch(
    `https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=info:${cid}:scholar.google.com/&output=cite`,
    { credentials: 'include' }
  );
  const html = await resp.text();
  const doc = new DOMParser().parseFromString(html, 'text/html');

  // Extract export links
  const links = Array.from(doc.querySelectorAll('#gs_citi a')).map(a => ({
    format: a.textContent.trim(),
    url: a.href
  }));

  // Extract citation format texts
  const citations = Array.from(doc.querySelectorAll('#gs_citt tr')).map(tr => {
    const cells = tr.querySelectorAll('td');
    return {
      style: cells[0]?.textContent?.trim() || '',
      text: cells[1]?.textContent?.trim() || ''
    };
  });

  const bibtexLink = links.find(l => l.format === 'BibTeX');
  return { cid, bibtexLink: bibtexLink?.url || '', links, citations };
}

1b. Navigate to BibTeX URL (navigate_page)

Use mcp__chrome-devtools__navigate_page:

• url: the bibtexLink URL from step 1a (on scholar.googleusercontent.com)

This bypasses CORS restrictions that block fetch() to googleusercontent.com.

1c. Read BibTeX content (evaluate_script)

async () => {
  return { bibtex: document.body.innerText || document.body.textContent || '' };
}

Step 2: Parse BibTeX and push to Zotero

Save the BibTeX data as JSON, then call the push script:

python scripts/push_to_zotero.py /tmp/gs_papers.json

Before calling the script, construct a JSON file at /tmp/gs_papers.json containing paper data parsed from BibTeX. Parse the BibTeX yourself and create the JSON array: