====== Custom PDF Resolvers ======

Custom resolvers for [[/blog/improved-pdf-retrieval-with-unpaywall-integration/|PDF retrieval]] currently can be configured via the ''extensions.zotero.findPDFs.resolvers'' hidden pref (Advanced preferences → Config Editor). The value should be a JSON string containing an array of configuration objects. HTML and JSON sources are supported.

You may wish to distribute a custom resolver using a Zotero plugin that adds or updates the pref at startup.

===== Example: Extract a PDF link from a webpage =====

<code>{
    "name": "My Paper Source",
    "method": "GET",
    "url": "https://example.com/{doi}",
    "mode": "html",
    "selector": "#pdf-link",
    "attribute": "href",
    "automatic": false
}</code>

''selector'' is a CSS-style selector. If ''attribute'' is omitted, the element's ''textContent'' is used. ''index'' can be passed to select a specific element of a set.

If ''automatic'' is ''false'' or unspecified, the resolver will be used only for manual actions — Add Item by Identifier and Find Available PDFs — and not when saving from the browser.

===== Example: Extract PDF URLs from a JSON API =====

**Note:** The Unpaywall API is used here for demonstration purposes, but Zotero
already uses its own mirror of Unpaywall data, so configuring it with a
custom resolver isn't necessary.

<code>{
    "name": "Unpaywall",
    "method": "GET",
    "url": "https://api.unpaywall.org/v2/{doi}?email=me@example.com",
    "mode": "json",
    "selector": ".oa_locations.url_for_pdf",
    "automatic": true
}</code>

''selector'' uses [[https://github.com/dfilatov/jspath|JSPath]] syntax.

In this case, ''.oa_locations.url_for_pdf'' matches zero or more URL strings
in the ''url_for_pdf'' property in objects in the ''oa_locations'' array.

However, Unpaywall can return either direct PDF URLs or landing page
URLs, so matching on ''url_for_pdf'' alone isn't sufficient. For advanced
cases like this, a ''mappings'' object can be provided to pull out
specific values:

<code>{
    "name": "Unpaywall",
    "method": "GET",
    "url": "https://api.unpaywall.org/v2/{doi}?email=me@example.com",
    "mode": "json",
    "selector": ".oa_locations",
    "mappings": {
        "url": "url_for_pdf",
        "pageURL": "url_for_landing_page"
    },
    "automatic": true
}</code>

Here, the ''oa_locations'' array is matched directly, and ''mappings'' is
used to assign the ''url_for_pdf'' and ''url_for_landing_page'' properties
from the array objects to ''pdf'' (for a direct PDF link) and ''pageURL''
(for a page where a PDF can be translated).