[Question]: Does this stack include Zotero Web?

[MadFisa]

Hi,

Basically what the title says. Does this stack include the Zotero Web i.e the web app that you get on logging into zotero.org ?
From what I could understand from my limited knowledge and going through the repository is that this repo primarily the data server that will allow you to connect the desktop client to a selfhosted server and doesn't contain Zotero Web.

Is it possible to have a self-hosted Zotero Web added to the stack?

Thank you for your great work btw. I remember searching for something similar to what zotprime provides a while back and didn't find anything useable.

[Amniotic3]

If you are primarily using zotero web to manage users, bin/create-user.sh under the production branch can be used to add users.

[uniuuu]

Hi,

Basically what the title says. Does this stack include the Zotero Web i.e the web app that you get on logging into zotero.org ? From what I could understand from my limited knowledge and going through the repository is that this repo primarily the data server that will allow you to connect the desktop client to a selfhosted server and doesn't contain Zotero Web.

Is it possible to have a self-hosted Zotero Web added to the stack?

Thank you for your great work btw. I remember searching for something similar to what zotprime provides a while back and didn't find anything useable.

If you are primarily using zotero web to manage users, bin/create-user.sh under the production branch can be used to add users.

Hi @MadFisa @Amniotic3
It's not in stack.
Could you please share a link to Zotero Web repository ?

[MadFisa]

@uniuuu

Here is the link for weblibrary : https://github.com/zotero/web-library

I should clarify that when I said Zotero Web, what I meant is that the part of the Zotero website that lets you view and read your library straight from the browser. My use case is that I may have to access Zotero from computers that may not have Zotero client installed for basic tasks, such as just viewing the pdf with the annotations.

I set up the above-linked website in a docker container for some testing. Looks like it just has a web library part of the Zotero website and nothing else (just as the repo name suggests).
The problem is there is that there is no user login/authentication. One has to generate a userid and api key and give it manually the index.html file if I understand it correctly. Is there a way to do that using Zotprime (i.e. generate an api key)?
Even better would be to have a login page for the user and the rest be automatically taken care of in the background, but don't know how much work it would involve.

[MadFisa]

I think the rest of the website is here: https://github.com/zotero/web-components/tree/master

I will try setting it up when I get some time. But it doesn't look like there is much documentation there.

[uniuuu]

@MadFisa
The quickest solution with lower effort would be using https://github.com/linuxserver/docker-zotero which runs desktop client in web browser.

[uniuuu]

I should clarify that when I said Zotero Web, what I meant is that the part of the Zotero website that lets you view and read your library straight from the browser. My use case is that I may have to access Zotero from computers that may not have Zotero client installed for basic tasks, such as just viewing the pdf with the annotations.

@MadFisa If you need only to view and read then next project can fit the requirement https://whiskyechobravo.github.io/kerko/latest/ - see the Demo via link shared there. Repository: https://github.com/whiskyechobravo/kerkoapp

[MadFisa]

@uniuuu I was also considering running the client in the web browser, it would work for me now since I'm a single user.
But, in a multi-user situation, it may not be ideal.

I don't know about kerkoapp before. It looks interesting, thank you for sharing.