54yyyu / zotero-mcp
Zotero MCP: Connects your Zotero research library with Claude and other AI assistants via the Model Context Protocol to discuss papers, get summaries, analyze citations, and more.
Why this job: name: mcp; says: model context protocol; topics: mcp-server, model-context-protocol, mcp

What it does
- Search by title, author, tag, collection, full text, or meaning (semantic search with local, OpenAI, Gemini, or Ollama embeddings)
- Read metadata, BibTeX, full text, and page ranges of PDFs, with page images where text extraction garbles math, figures, and tables
- Annotate. highlights and area boxes placed on the exact words, figure, table, or equation; notes; PDF annotation extraction
- Write. add papers by DOI, URL, ISBN, BibTeX, or file (with open-access PDFs), manage collections and tags, merge duplicates
- Local or web. in local mode reads come straight from zotero.sqlite; writes go to the running Zotero 10+ or through the web API
Get started
uv tool install zotero-mcp-server
# or: pip install zotero-mcp-server- Maintenance
- Active
- Last commit 8 days ago
- Stars
- 5,816
- +107 this week
- Licence
- MIT
- Allows business use
- Downloads for
- None listed
- No release files
- Latest version
- v0.15.2
- Released 8 days ago
- Built with
- Python
- 77% of the code
Is it looked after?
- Contributors
- 18
- Last 90 days
- Issues
- 87% closed
- 45 still open
- Pull requests
- 343 merged
- 50 waiting
- Releases
- 36
- 30+ in the last year
- No contributing guide
- No security policy
- No code of conduct
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More: languages, topics and project record
Languages
- Python 77%
- TypeScript 17%
- JavaScript 6%
- Nix <1%
Topics
- claude
- mcp
- zotero
- semantic-search
- ai-agent
- chatgpt
- claude-code
- mcp-server
- model-context-protocol
- research-tools
- zotero-plugin
Project record
- JobMCP servers
- StatusFeatured
- Commits1,213
- Forks456
- Watching12
- Stars in 28 days+479
- CreatedMar 22, 2025
- First seen by usNov 7, 2026
- CheckedNov 9, 2026
