Dump Zotero files with folder/file structures restored (zotero2papis)

 

The difference between "storage" (Zotero original) and "output" (result of zotero2papis) is because each zotero folders contains additional 'cache' and 'info' files.

 

Instead of papis-zotero importer, zotero2papis works better when dumping Zotero files with folder/file structures restored

* papis/papis-zotero: Zotero compatibility layer for papis (github.com)

> papis zotero import --from-sql-folder "C:/Users/user/Zotero"

* nicolasshu/zotero2papis (github.com)
> zotero2papis -z "C:/Users/user/Zotero" -o "~/Documents/output"

 

* Updated parts of zotero2papis.py (from original zotero2papis)

1. Cover the exceptional case that an item does not have "date" key (utilized SimpleNamespace for dot representations)

if "date" in self.item:
    try:
        # Try to guess any date config (e.g. YYYYMMDD, DD-MM-YYYY)
        date = dateutil.parser.parse(self.item["date"])
    except:
        try: 
            date = dateutil.parser.parse(self.item["date"][:-3])
        except:
            from types import SimpleNamespace
            dateDict = {"year":2024}
            date = SimpleNamespace(**dateDict)
    dirname = os.path.join(f"{date.year}_{self.item['title']}")
else:
    dirname = self.item['title']

 

2. Correction on directory names by removing special characters and limiting the length + trimming

dirname = re.sub(r"[/\\?%*:|\"<>\x7F\x00-\x1F]", "-", dirname)[:100].strip()

 

3. Comment out print() functions which cause the encoding errors (if a folder contains non-ASCII characters)

#print(f"    The file in the path below does not exist\n      {path}")
#print(f"  File has been copied to {dest}")

 

4. Exception handling for path ('None' case)

try:
    if path[:8] != "storage:": continue
except:
    print(path) #mostly "none"
    continue

 

zotero2papis.py

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