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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

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ZoteroBridge MCP logo, by CombjellyshenCommunity listingLocal stdioSource reviewed; not executedPublished by Combjellyshen
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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

Community listingRegistry 1.0.3
Maintenance checked

Packages and installation

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zotero-bridge 1.0.3

npm
zotero-bridge package definition
{
  "version": "1.0.3",
  "transport": "stdio",
  "identifier": "zotero-bridge",
  "registryType": "npm"
}

Tools

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Cursor

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Cursor configuration
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "zoterobridge-mcp": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "zotero-bridge@1.0.3"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Cline

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Cline configuration
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "zoterobridge-mcp": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "zotero-bridge@1.0.3"
      ]
    }
  }
}

VS Code

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VS Code configuration
{
  "servers": {
    "zoterobridge-mcp": {
      "type": "stdio",
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "zotero-bridge@1.0.3"
      ]
    }
  }
}

Claude Desktop

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Claude Desktop configuration
{
  "mcpServers": {
    "zoterobridge-mcp": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "zotero-bridge@1.0.3"
      ]
    }
  }
}

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