Save as/Export function for the Website Snapshot

syoon25
188BET靠谱吗Loving the Zotero beta 7, especially the clean annotation functionality of the website snapshots.

However, to my knowledge, the website snapshots have no ways to export the files with the annotations unlike the PDFs.

Is there any future plan of incorporating such feature so that the html with the annotation can be downloaded?
  • adamsmith
    I vaguely recall a discussion on this involving @AbeJellinekwith some ideas, but the basic problem is that there isn't a good way to do this.PDFs are a standardized file format with a standardized way to implement comments and annotations (that's why they work across different tools with little loss).

    HTML is also standardized, but even in its HTML5 iteration does not have an annotation feature.188BET靠谱吗There is a standard for open web annotations (on which Zotero's HTML annotations are actually based), but that requires external tools such as Hypothes.isand typically relies on annotations being stored server-side, which means an export isn't possible in a straightforward way.
  • syoon25
    I see.Thank you for your answer.I guess I just really wanted in any shape or form of being able to export the annotations on the website snapshot.If that was possible, I could make my own script which parses the annotations according to the location.
  • adamsmith
    I don't think the details are documented, but annotations are accessible via the API
  • dstillman
    Yes, you can always get the annotations from the web API* and do something yourself.Annotations are just a type of item.

    One problem with even a non-standardized export is that the display of annotations is inherently interactive, so it's not just a question of serializing the reader DOM to HTML.That could show annotation shapes, like highlights and underlines, but not the comments you add to annotations, including the contents of note annotations, which appear in popup widgets.Showing those in any reasonable manner requires interactivity, and I don't really see us writing some custom JavaScript solution just for exported HTML files.That's why this kind of requires a data standard and third-party tools that can actually handle that data using their own interfaces.Such a tool could even be a JS library that was called from an exported snapshot, but I don't know if anything like that exists.(There was Annotator, but it appears to have been abandoned many years ago.)

    Also, in case it's not clear, you can also create notes from all annotations on a snapshot, with quoted text, comments, and citations, and then export those as HTML or insert them into a word processor document.

    * There's also a local version of the web API, but it doesn't yet support annotations.
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