Verify a Zotero translator after every addition or modification, and before submitting a PR. Runs linting, tests, and metadata updates.
Create or update test cases for a Zotero translator by running it against live URLs and capturing the output.
Develop a web translator that scrapes bibliographic data from a website. This is the most common translator type.
Develop an export translator that converts Zotero items into a file format (JSON, XML, CSV, etc.).
Develop an import translator that parses a file format (JSON, XML, RIS, BibTeX, CSV, etc.) into Zotero items.
Develop a search translator that looks up items by identifier (DOI, ISBN, PMID, arXiv ID, etc.) via an external API. NOT for websites with search pages — use develop-web-translator for those.
Analyze a website's API by capturing network traffic (HAR) and generating an OpenAPI spec via mitmproxy2swagger.
Inspect a live web page using headless Chrome. Gets screenshots, meta tags, accessibility tree, and runs CSS selectors or JS expressions against the rendered DOM.