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| ====== How to Write a Zotero Translator, 2nd Edition ====== | ====== How to Write a Zotero Translator, 2nd Edition ====== |
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| | **Note**: This guide's advice on translator code [[https://github.com/zotero/translators/pull/1282#issuecomment-287574730|may be outdated]]. Instead, model your code on [[https://github.com/zotero/translators/pulls|recently updated translators]], [[https://github.com/zuphilip/translators/wiki/Common-code-blocks-for-translators|common code templates]], [[https://www.zotero.org/support/dev/translators/coding|the translator coding documentation]], and search for answers in the [[https://forums.zotero.org/discussions|Zotero Forums]] and [[https://github.com/zotero/translators/issues|on GitHub]]. |
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| ===== Table of Contents ===== | ===== Table of Contents ===== |
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| This tutorial is an adaptation of '[[http://niche-canada.org/zotero-guide|How to Write a Zotero Translator]]' (2009) by Adam Crymble. The 2nd Edition has been created to bring the tutorial up-to-date with Zotero 2.x translator development. | This tutorial is an adaptation of '[[http://niche-canada.org/zotero-guide|How to Write a Zotero Translator]]' (2009) by Adam Crymble. The 2nd Edition has been created to bring the tutorial up-to-date with Zotero 2.x translator development. |
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| Note: This guide is almost a decade old as of 2017 and [[https://github.com/zotero/translators/pull/1282#issuecomment-287574730|almost everything it says about translator code is outdated]]. Instead, see [[https://github.com/zotero/translators/pulls|recently updated translators]], [[https://github.com/zuphilip/translators/wiki/Common-code-blocks-for-translators|common code templates]], and [[https://www.zotero.org/support/dev/translators/coding|the translator coding documentation]]. | |
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