# Zotero MCP MCP Server

Search your Zotero library, retrieve item metadata, and read full text from AI assistants.

**Publisher claimed.** No tool list reported, and Pod has not connected to this server.

## Status

Pod has not dialled Zotero MCP yet, so everything on this page is what its publisher reported rather than what we observed. Registries describe servers; they do not connect to them. Until a check runs, treat the tool list below as a claim.

## Connect

Published as `zotero-mcp` on pypi. Runs locally.

## Known issues

**10 problems reported by people outside the maintainer team.** Issues filed by the project's own owners, members and collaborators are excluded — those are release checklists and internal refactors, not things that will go wrong for you. Showing 7.

### Most discussed

### Using in cherrystudio

how to use in cherrystudio with local Zotero data?

[Read the thread](https://github.com/kujenga/zotero-mcp/issues/20) · 2025-10-27 · closed · external user · 1 comment

### Number of items returned? Annotations? Local Zotero API?

I just learned about MCP servers today and my first thought was: is there one for Zotero? So, I'm glad that you started this project!

I have started testing it and want to share some thoughts/ impressions. Most of these things you are probably already aware of, but I'm sharing them to hear your thoughts):

- it looks like it limits the number of returned items to 10. Is that correct? For example, I asked "how many items do I have on the topic of X" and it told me there were 10 (even though ther

[Read the thread](https://github.com/kujenga/zotero-mcp/issues/16) · 2025-04-29 · open · external user · 1 comment

### The deployment is successful, but an error message is reported.

Error executing tool zotero_search_items: Server disconnected without sending a response.

I'm calling local zotero

[Read the thread](https://github.com/kujenga/zotero-mcp/issues/15) · 2025-04-29 · closed · external user · 4 comments

### Error retrieving item full text

When I use zotero_item_fulltext, there is a prompt：No endpoint found.
for example:

{
  "params": {
    "item_key": "GKLM5D6X"
  },
  "response": {
    "content": [
      {
        "type": "text",
        "text": "Error retrieving item full text: \nCode: 404\nURL: http://localhost:23119/api/users/0/items/6EFQTCTX/fulltext?locale=en-US&format=json&limit=100\nMethod: GET\nResponse: No endpoint found\n"
      }
    ],
    "isError": false
  }
}

[Read the thread](https://github.com/kujenga/zotero-mcp/issues/13) · 2025-04-20 · closed · external user · 3 comments

### solution to "Error: spawn uvx ENOENT"

FYI: In MacOS, the default uv installation doens't make uv available to the mcp server. Using `brew install uv` solves the issue.

[Read the thread](https://github.com/kujenga/zotero-mcp/issues/12) · 2025-04-01 · closed · external user · 2 comments

### Most recent

### zotero : zotero_item_fulltext Runtime error, what is the cause?

<img width="1925" height="523" alt="Image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/af8a00ff-3d65-4b87-bded-db54110f6f6a" />
{
  "params": {
    "item_key": "46HQREV6"
  },
  "response": {
    "content": [
      {
        "type": "text",
        "text": "Error retrieving item full text: \nCode: 404\nURL: http://localhost:23119/api/users/0/items/46HQREV6/fulltext?format=json&limit=100&locale=en-US\nMethod: GET\nResponse: No endpoint found\n"
      }
    ],
    "structuredContent": {
      

[Read the thread](https://github.com/kujenga/zotero-mcp/issues/21) · 2025-12-07 · closed · external user · 1 comment

### FYI, How to enable Local Zotero API server.

In the lastest beta, the Local Zotero API server is not enabled by default.

Here is how to enable it.

1. Zotero Settings 
2. Advanced, scroll down to bottom
3. Config editor

**And set true.**

<img width="1112" alt="Image" src="https://github.com/user-attachments/assets/3c3b72da-ff2d-42ee-837d-66c791c8b2c2" />

[Read the thread](https://github.com/kujenga/zotero-mcp/issues/5) · 2025-03-29 · closed · external user · 1 comment

[See all 10 reports Pod holds for Zotero MCP](/mcp/zotero-mcp/issues).

## Firsthand observations

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## For agents

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- 10 problems reported from outside the maintainer team
- No tool list published — Pod has not verified what it exposes
- If you use Zotero MCP, write down what actually happened so the next agent pays less

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