ZotHero — Generate Zotero citations in Alfred

[giovanni]

On 7/23/2023 at 11:49 AM, Faris Najem said:

It seems that the problem is only in the "date" field

yes, Zothero parses the date field to obtain date and year which are then used as needed across citation styles. Would you use the numerals to enter the year only, or more complex dates (month and year, full date etc)? If year only I can try to add a way to handle that. 

[Tee Elem]

I tried ZotHero 2.2 today. The installation seemed successful, and when I type "zot" into Alfred I see some ZotHero Alfred results appear. But when I add anything as a query, like "zot smith" or for that matter "zot s", Alfred just goes to my fallback search option. (This is Alfred 5.1.4, Zotero 6.0.3.)

 

Is there some set-up step that I'm missing?

[rdjfraser]

When I try to search using Zotero, it only searches the web. Did I make a mistake during installation? 

 

 

[giovanni]

@rdjfraser could you check the debugger? 

[vitor]

Also @rdjfraser, make sure you’re using the fork by @giovanni and not the original by Dean. Same for the other thread.

 

Use the versions in the Gallery for both.

[Tee Elem]

Just to confirm, @rdjfraser's issue is exactly what I described in my Jan. 26 post. I'm using the version from the Gallery.

 

@giovanni how would I check the debugger? "zotconf Open Log File", per the GitHub page? That doesn't work for me. When I type "zotcon" into Alfred I see the first image. When I add an "f" I see the second image.

 

[vitor]

@Tee Elem See how to use the debugger.

[Tee Elem]

Ah, ok. Thanks @vitor. So when I type "zot S" (on my way for trying to search for "Smith") I get:

 

[14:53:55.042] ZotHero[Script Filter] Script with argv 'S' finished
[14:53:55.047] ERROR: ZotHero[Script Filter] Code 1: xcrun: error: invalid active developer path (/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools), missing xcrun at: /Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/usr/bin/xcrun

 

This same error recurs for like every part of the "Smith" string as I type it in.

[Stephen_C]

You need to install, or re-install, the Apple Command Line tools—see, for example, this post and subsequent comments in that thread.

 

Stephen

[Tee Elem]

Thanks Stephen_C! I've done so, and I'm now getting a different error:

 

[13:00:51.275] ZotHero[Script Filter] {
  "items": [
    {
      "title": "Error in workflow 'ZotHero'",
      "subtitle": "[Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/Users/tobymartin/Zotero/better-bibtex.sqlite'",
      "valid": false,
      "icon": {
        "path": "/System/Library/CoreServices/CoreTypes.bundle/Contents/Resources/AlertStopIcon.icns"
      }
    }
  ]
}

 

I don't know whether "better-bibtex.sqlite" is supposed to be created on-the-fly, but I can confirm that there's no such file in my Zotero folder. I have instead "zotero.sqlite" along with some back-ups.

[lutefish]

Have you installed better bibtex for Zotero? 

https://retorque.re/zotero-better-bibtex/installation/index.html

[Tee Elem]

I had not.

 

Now I have, and huh: good workflow.

 

Thanks for the help everyone!

[lutefish]

Glad you got it working - I rely on this workflow, and have seen so many people generously give their time and expertise to keep it working.

[rdjfraser]

On 2/4/2024 at 10:36 AM, Tee Elem said:

Just to confirm, @rdjfraser's issue is exactly what I described in my Jan. 26 post. I'm using the version from the Gallery.

 

@giovanni how would I check the debugger? "zotconf Open Log File", per the GitHub page? That doesn't work for me. When I type "zotcon" into Alfred I see the first image. When I add an "f" I see the second image.

 

 

I installed from the gallery too. I did try this M1 troubleshooting video, and installed  php. The ZotHero workflow seems to be working now.