Export PubMed citations and attach PDFs to a local Zotero library.
npx skills add https://github.com/cookjohn/pm-skills --skill pm-export
Please help me install this Agent Skill. Skill: pm-export Source: https://github.com/cookjohn/pm-skills/tree/main/skills/pm-export Command: npx skills add https://github.com/cookjohn/pm-skills --skill pm-export
This Skill automates the tedious process of saving PubMed citations and their full-text PDFs into a local Zotero library or producing MEDLINE/RIS exports, removing manual copy-paste of metadata and one-by-one PDF downloading.
Export PMID 35641793 to Zotero and attach any available PDFs to the saved item.
High-intent search queries and answers about installing and using this skill.
To export PubMed papers to Zotero with PDFs, fetch citation metadata via E-utilities and push it to the Zotero Connector local API, which then downloads available full-text PDFs as attachments. This automates the entire save process for single or batch PMID entries.
Yes, you can save multiple PubMed search results to Zotero by processing batch PMIDs from your search results. The Skill builds Zotero-compatible items for each entry and uses deterministic session IDs to ensure idempotent saves without creating duplicate library records.
Exporting PubMed citations to Zotero requires the Zotero Connector local API to be accessible, which typically means the desktop application must be running. The Skill uses saveItems and saveAttachment calls to communicate with the local API and provides troubleshooting messages for connectivity issues.
Besides Zotero, you can export PubMed metadata to MEDLINE or RIS formats. This fallback export allows you to import the citation data, including DOIs, abstracts, and keywords, into other reference managers if you prefer not to use the direct Zotero local API integration.
PDFs are missing when saving PubMed entries to Zotero if no full-text PDF is available or the HTTP retrieval times out. The Skill performs content-type validation and timeout checks during PDF retrieval, only attaching files that successfully pass these HTTP-based content verification checks.
When exporting to Zotero, the included PubMed metadata fields are DOIs, PMCIDs, abstracts, authors, keywords, ISSN, and publication types. The Skill fetches this comprehensive metadata via E-utilities esummary and efetch to assemble complete journal article items.
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