Copy DOI to clipboard

[chriskue]

I would like to copy a list of DOIs from a set of records to the clipboard for quick import into Zotero. I can find the corresponding AppleScript commands for authors, name, etc. but how would this look like for DOI?

[cgrunenberg]

Did you store the DOI as custom metadata or do you want to retrieve it from the document’s content? In the second case see digital object identifier property.

[chriskue]

That was fast

What helped was to get inspired by the Download Bibliographic Data script you provide.

For anyone who is interested this is what I came up with:

on performSmartRule(theRecords)
	tell application id "DNtp"
		set theList to ""
		repeat with theRecord in theRecords
			set theMetaData to custom meta data of theRecord
			set theList to (theList & ", " & (mddoi of theMetaData))
		end repeat
		set the clipboard to theList
	end tell
end performSmartRule

With a simple CMD+V into the “Add Entry through Identifier” in Zotero, all entries from the selected records are imported.
In my case, a Smart Rule checks the existence of a DOI, one might want to add a clever if when using standalone

[BLUEFROG]

Nice!

@chriskue

With a simple CMD+V into the “Add Entry through Identifier” in Zotero, all entries from the selected records are imported.

Can you post a screen capture of how this is done in Zotero for any passers-by using it? Thanks!

[chriskue]

Of course

Click on the button marked by the arrow, paste the clipboard content from the script, hit enter

[BLUEFROG]

Thanks!