ZotHero — Generate Zotero citations in Alfred

[iandol]

For those who are having trouble with this workflow, if you are willing to use a BibTeX intermediate (which is necessary for many workflows), This is a superb alternative with the developer active and working on this:

 

 

It functions really well across many different reference managers (I use Bookends, will work with Zotero if you use BetterBibTeX), and is very fast for search and insert when writing using markdown or LaTeX...

Edited July 8, 2022 by iandol

[lutefish]

@iandol - thanks for drawing attention to that workflow. A quick tinker with it wasn't working for me (I don't actively use Bibtex, even though I've installed the Zotero/Bibtex plugin, so even configuring the workflow to point to my base Zotero directory wasn't finding my library), but I'll definitely keep an eye on it.

 

On the other hand, this Zotero workflow has started working again, after i changed the Zotero export type back to BetterBibText (I had changed it to a particular style when the workflow stopped working, but changing it back to BBT seems to have resolved the error I was seeing).

 

 

[Corrie]

On 7/8/2022 at 5:58 AM, lutefish said:

I'm suddenly getting a new error that precludes all use (with Alfred 5, so perhaps I should post it over there?) "NoneType object is not subscriptable" 

 

Let me know if you need more to figure out what's changed.

 

I am now getting the same error. I have decided to go with the alternate suggested on this thread.

[grothen]

On 7/8/2022 at 3:58 AM, lutefish said:

I'm suddenly getting a new error that precludes all use (with Alfred 5, so perhaps I should post it over there?) "NoneType object is not subscriptable" 

 

Let me know if you need more to figure out what's changed.

Most of such errors can be remove by update the data through zothero configuration. It works well until the newest  Alfred 5 version. It's really strange that zothero still work for the Alfred 5 beta version.

[lutefish]

Odd. It's working for me with 5.0 GM1

[Corrie]

On 7/16/2022 at 3:33 AM, lutefish said:

Odd. It's working for me with 5.0 GM1

It is working for me again too. I reloaded my data and it is working as normal.

[YuTang]

I find the workflow doesn't work any more, when you type to search something it just returns nothing. here is the debug info

 

[13:48:29.481] Logging Started...
[13:48:34.579] ERROR: ZotHero[Script Filter] Code 126: /Users/yutang/Library/Caches/com.runningwithcrayons.Alfred/Workflow Scripts/AC95751A-F50A-4B1B-91C9-32B6066AD3F3: ./zh: /usr/bin/python: bad interpreter: No such file or directory
[13:48:34.756] ERROR: ZotHero[Script Filter] Code 126: /Users/yutang/Library/Caches/com.runningwithcrayons.Alfred/Workflow Scripts/AC95751A-F50A-4B1B-91C9-32B6066AD3F3: ./zh: /usr/bin/python: bad interpreter: No such file or directory
[13:48:35.344] ERROR: ZotHero[Script Filter] Code 126: /Users/yutang/Library/Caches/com.runningwithcrayons.Alfred/Workflow Scripts/AC95751A-F50A-4B1B-91C9-32B6066AD3F3: ./zh: /usr/bin/python: bad interpreter: No such file or directory

 

Could you please tell me what's the problem? I believe that I've have python3 installed on my Mac

[vitor]

When asking about an existing Workflow, it’s best to use its own forum thread. While it may seem that starting a new thread could give your problem visibility, it fragments the discussion and makes it less likely the author and users of the workflow (the people who can help) will see it.

 

I have moved the post to the correct thread.

 

6 hours ago, YuTang said:

I believe that I've have python3 installed on my Mac

 

But not the correct version of the Workflow. Use @giovanni’s fork.

[grothen]

I find the bug. The Zotero or some new extension use link as "...library/items..."  while the url get by zothero is  ".../items/1_...". It works after I modify the url.

Edited July 23, 2022 by grothen

[lutefish]

FYI, this stopped working (again) after updating to Mac OS 13.

 

Looking at the debugger gave the following error: 

 

 Code 1: xcrun: error: invalid active developer path (/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools), missing xcrun at: /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/usr/bin/xcrun

 

Re-loading the Command Line Developer Tools (terminal, xcode-select --install) fixed the issue.

 

[nituren]

On 7/23/2022 at 7:18 AM, grothen said:

I find the bug. The Zotero or some new extension use link as "...library/items..."  while the url get by zothero is  ".../items/1_...". It works after I modify the url.

 

Hi,

Can you share where you did the change?

I updated Alfred 5.0.5 and suddenly see the

 "NoneType object is not subscriptable" 

 error.

 

Thanks!

 

 

Edit:

Reinstall the workflow does not solve the issue.

go to "zotconf" and choose "Reload Zotero Data" has resolved the issue for me.

 

Edited November 4, 2022 by nituren
found a solution.