Zotero Library MCP Server

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Zotero Library MCP runs on your own machine — the client starts it, so there is no endpoint to ping. 244 installs a week from pypi. Last commit 7 Sep 2026.

Add papers and books to Zotero by DOI, arXiv ID, or ISBN and manage your library

Installs per day peak 624 · avg 77 · -53% w/w

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7 Sep 2026

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Today is the operative word: we check Zotero Library MCP every 15 minutes and re-read its code on every release. Watch it and you find out the day that stops being true.

Connect this server

This server runs on your own machine — install it with the package manager and the client starts it for you. Package name taken from the official registry entry.

Claude Code Claude Desktop Codex Cursor VS Code

run in your terminal

claude mcp add zotero-library-mcp -- uvx zotero-library-mcp

~/Library/Application Support/Claude/claude_desktop_config.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "zotero-library-mcp": {
      "args": [
        "zotero-library-mcp"
      ],
      "command": "uvx"
    }
  }
}

~/.codex/config.toml

[mcp_servers.zotero-library-mcp]
command = "uvx"
args = ["zotero-library-mcp"]

.cursor/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "zotero-library-mcp": {
      "args": [
        "zotero-library-mcp"
      ],
      "command": "uvx"
    }
  }
}

.vscode/mcp.json

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "zotero-library-mcp": {
      "args": [
        "zotero-library-mcp"
      ],
      "command": "uvx"
    }
  }
}

This one needs environment variables set before it will start: ZOTERO_LIBRARY_ID (Your Zotero user or group library ID), ZOTERO_API_KEY (Zotero API key with read/write permissions), ZOTERO_WEBDAV_URL (WebDAV URL for file storage (if using WebDAV sync)), ZOTERO_WEBDAV_USER (WebDAV username), ZOTERO_WEBDAV_PASSWORD (WebDAV password). The author declared them in the registry entry; get the values from the project itself.

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Zotero Library MCP — questions

Answers built from our own checks of this server.

Why is there no uptime for Zotero Library MCP?

Zotero Library MCP runs on your own machine over stdio — there is no network address to reach, so uptime cannot be measured for it by anyone. What can be measured is adoption: the pypi package zotero-library-mcp was installed 244 times last week.

How do I connect Zotero Library MCP?

Copy the ready config from this page — we generate it for Claude Code, Claude Desktop, Codex, Cursor and VS Code, each with the file path that client actually reads. It runs locally, so the command pulls zotero-library-mcp straight from pypi; nothing to host, nothing to sign up for.

How many people use Zotero Library MCP?

The pypi package zotero-library-mcp was installed 244 times in the last week. Week over week that is -53%. We show installs rather than GitHub stars on purpose: a star is a bookmark, an install is someone actually running it.

Is Zotero Library MCP open source?

We cannot say either way: written in Python and 2 stars on GitHub, but we could not determine the licence, and without one the code is not open source by default.