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Site translators are the secret sauce that make Zotero so easy to use. Here you'll find the documentation to get you started creating your own site translators.

How to Write a Zotero Translator
A fairly comprehensive tutorial for beginners, describing how to write a translator using Scaffold. Limited to screen scrapers.

Scaffold: an IDE for Zotero translators (only compatible with Zotero 1.0.x)
Scaffold is a Firefox extension designed to help you write translators.

Zotero Translators - The Missing Manual This missing manual (which is indeed AWOL), should fill the gap in a few areas: a discussion of the functions in Zotero.Utilities, examples of calling other translators (e.g. for RIS-translation), and more.

Translator Overview

Translator Tips & Tricks

A more technical (but fairly outdated) guide additionally covering the creation of import and export translators can be found here

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