ZoteroBridge MCP
An open-source MCP server that connects directly to the Zotero SQLite database, enabling AI assistants to interact with your library. It supports managing collections and tags, searching and retrieving item details, reading and setting abstracts and notes, extracting text from PDFs, generating summaries, searching within PDFs, and finding items by identifiers like DOI or ISBN.
Package and access
Local package with source-attributed installation metadata. Koskamo does not execute packages during review.
What you can do with it
- Search Zotero items by title or identifier
- Extract full text and generate summaries from PDFs
- Manage collections and tags in the library
- Add notes and abstracts to bibliography entries
Source and maintenance
- Maintenance checked
Packages and installation
Source-provided package data. Koskamo has not executed or live-probed this package.
zotero-bridge 1.0.3
{
"version": "1.0.3",
"transport": "stdio",
"identifier": "zotero-bridge",
"registryType": "npm"
}Tools
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Connect from your client
Each snippet configures the same source-provided package; replace placeholders before use.
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{
"mcpServers": {
"zoterobridge-mcp": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"zotero-bridge@1.0.3"
]
}
}
}Cline
{
"mcpServers": {
"zoterobridge-mcp": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"zotero-bridge@1.0.3"
]
}
}
}VS Code
{
"servers": {
"zoterobridge-mcp": {
"type": "stdio",
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"zotero-bridge@1.0.3"
]
}
}
}Claude Desktop
{
"mcpServers": {
"zoterobridge-mcp": {
"command": "npx",
"args": [
"-y",
"zotero-bridge@1.0.3"
]
}
}
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