tweetzotero

tweetzotero is a python automation script to save papers from twitter bookmarks to Zotero. It takes a csv file with tweet status URLs as input, fetch all the external URLs from those tweets, and save the papers to Zotero.

Prerequisites

Here's the things that needs to be done before running the script:

1. Get your Twitter API Key, API Secret, Access Token and Access Secret from here.
2. Set your default browser to Google Chrome. This script will work on this browser for now.
3. Export your twitter bookmark URLs as csv with the chrome extension Dewey.
4. Add Zotero extension to Google Chrome from here. Also, install the Zotero software itself to your system. While running the script, the zotero app must be running.
5. tweetzotero uses the shortcut ctrl/cmd + shift + s on chrome to add the paper to zotero. So, make sure this shortcut actually works on chrome before running the script.
6. Make sure you have conda installed. If not, then install from here.

Setup

Here's how you can download the code and setup environments:

git clone https://github.com/nahid18/tweetzotero.git
cd tweetzotero
conda create --name tweetzotero --file requirements.txt -y
conda activate tweetzotero

Now, paste all 4 twitter keys to the keys.py file.

After that, you can run the script like below.

Usage

Once you have completed everything above, here's how you can run the script:

python tweetzotero.py -i <dewey-csv-file-path>

Example:

python tweetzotero.py -i example.csv

After running the script, just let the script complete tasks and don't do anything on your PC.

For Help,

python tweetzotero.py -h

Inspiration

The inspiration of this project came from here.

Issues & Bugs

There could be many issues and bugs. Please report the issues and I'll try to resolve those.

License

MIT