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Zoteus

Zotero MCP server for Claude and ChatGPT: search, citations, safe writes, PDF passages and pages.

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★ 44 stars Last pushed 2026-09-23 License: MIT

Topics: Research

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Review any command before running it. Package names and URLs come from the server's own registry entry.

Remote (streamable-http)

https://mcp.zoteus.com/mcp Requires auth (checked 2026-09-24)

Claude Code:

claude mcp add --transport http zoteus https://mcp.zoteus.com/mcp

Or add to your MCP client config:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "zoteus": {
      "url": "https://mcp.zoteus.com/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Package (npm 1.21.0)

npx -y @oscardvs/[email protected]

Or add to your MCP client config:

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "zoteus": {
      "command": "npx",
      "args": [
        "-y",
        "@oscardvs/[email protected]"
      ],
      "env": {
        "ZOTERO_API_KEY": "<YOUR_VALUE>",
        "ZOTEUS_LOCAL": "<YOUR_VALUE>",
        "ZOTEUS_ALLOW_DELETE": "<YOUR_VALUE>"
      }
    }
  }
}
  • ZOTERO_API_KEY secret — Zotero API key (writes/sync/groups; optional for local-only reads).
  • ZOTEUS_LOCAL — Use the Zotero desktop local API: auto | on | off.
  • ZOTEUS_ALLOW_DELETE — Set to true to enable permanent deletion (off by default).

Related servers

Listed in punkpeye/awesome-mcp-servers (MIT)

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