Hi,
I have seen that Hook should work with Zotero, but I found myself testing Zotero’s beta (i.e. version 6, to be available later this Fall) and Hook doesn’t seem to be finding its way in it (“no linkable item”).
Any plans to make Hook compatible with Zotero? As an academic 50% of my work involves touching Zotero one way or another 
Thanks!
Would be interested in this as well. The only thing holding me back from using Zotero’s Beta (v6 is announced for later this year) is the current lack of compatibility between Hook – that I’ve grown so happily accustomed to – and my Zotero DB that I just need on a daily basis. Hook works beautifully with v5 and I look forward to a fix. - Thanks.
We just updated the script server for Zotera 6 beta. Could you please go to Hook preference window ->Update tab, click on “Check Now” button to update the script? Please let us know whether it works for you.
Thank you
just clicked on “check now” but it said i was up to date — 3.2.1 (4468) scripts version 180
still not working though
Could you please restart Hook and see if it helps?
If it is still not working, could you please
(1)select an item in Zotero beta
(2)run the following script in /Applications/Utilities/Script Editor and see if there is any error message?
(3)see if there is any error message
use scripting additions
use framework "Foundation"
set zotext_result to do shell script "curl -s -d selected=t\\&format=json -G http://127.0.0.1:23119/zotxt/items"
set str to current application's NSString's stringWithString:zotext_result
set theData to str's dataUsingEncoding:(current application's NSUTF8StringEncoding)
set {res, theErr} to current application's NSJSONSerialization's JSONObjectWithData:theData options:0 |error|:(reference)
if res is missing value then error (theErr's localizedDescription() as text) number -10000
set aList to res as list
set theName to title of item 1 of aList
set zotext_result to do shell script "curl -s -d selected=t\\&format=key -G http://127.0.0.1:23119/zotxt/items"
set str to current application's NSString's stringWithString:zotext_result
set theData to str's dataUsingEncoding:(current application's NSUTF8StringEncoding)
set {res, theErr} to current application's NSJSONSerialization's JSONObjectWithData:theData options:0 |error|:(reference)
if res is missing value then error (theErr's localizedDescription() as text) number -10000
set aList to res as list
set theLink to item 1 of aList
set theLink to "[" & theName & "](zotero://select/items/" & theLink & ")"
return theLink
Thank you
Thank you for the info!
Do you have zotxt installed on your machine?
If yes, could you please run the following command in /Applications/Utilities/Terminal and paste the result here?
curl -s -G http://127.0.0.1:23119/zotxt/items -d selected=t&format=json
Thank you
Would be possible to get Hook link to active open PDF in Zotero 6 built-in reader?
For linking from library I am using Markdown tranlator (it may be useful for someone)
No, I don’t have zotxt installed. I’m sorry I don’t have much time on my hand to debug this right now.
Hook will not work with Zotero if zotxt is not installed. Sorry we didn’t make this clear to the user. When you have time, you can install zotxt and see if it solves the problem. We will try to make that clear.
Thank you and sorry about this
Thank you for contacting us! We will have a look.
@bchend had some time tonight to install the extension — it works!
Might have missed that Hook required this plugin somewhere along the line.
Thanks for helping.
On Mac M1 with Montery I still have problem with linking items from Zotero with Hook,
using zotxt gives me no end point not found, I commented on specific issue here version endpoint not found (zotxt 5.1.4) · Issue #29 · egh/zotxt · GitHub
I created a topic on Zotero forum to ask for linking from currently opened pdf (not from library view)
Even more great would be to have possibility to link to a particular annotation in sidebar
Currently Zotero 6 doesnt work with Hook due to zotext incompatibility with the latest Zotero 6 release https://github.com/egh/zotxt/issues/31
This combination worked for me on v 6.0-beta.5+8b7afcf24 - thank you very much!
Currently Better Bibtex and Hook still cannot be shared in Zotero 6.
Just to round out these topics: updated zotero:
Interestingly Zotero 6 has now option “Copy as Markdown Item URI” (Shift +Cmd + C) to get the URI of the currently open PDF, not only item from library, x
Shortcut has conflicts with my other app, I would like to use Hook as the united interface for everything too 
So it is possible to get the URI via a shortcut (so it means it is exposed) it would be possible to get this via Hook too? (After some scripting)
I still have "No linkable item found in * Zotero* when I am not focused on an item in a library (hook only works on items in library view as before)
I am on Version 3.5 Beta (4712; Integration v. 208), MacOS 12.3.1
Zotero 6.0.5-beta.2+c510d9146
I am not versed in apple script but this would involve more or less this in pseudocode?
tell application Zotero
tell current window
tell application "System Events" to keystroke SHORTCUT
RETURN output TO HOOK
If someone make this psuedocode work, Hook doesn’t need then Zotext and could hook open pdfs
I don’t use zotero myself but this is what one would expect. One can just get a link to a specific entry in the library. Is there a notion of different Zotero libraries, and you’d like a link to an entire library?