add_book
Catalogue a book in Zotero by ISBN, DOI, or title, automatically adding publisher, edition, and page count.
Instructions
Catalogue a book in Zotero by ISBN, book DOI, or title.
Resolves an ISBN-10/13, a book DOI, or a title (Crossref, then Open
Library, then Google Books) into a proper Zotero book item with
publisher, edition, ISBN, series, and page count — never a
journalArticle, which would corrupt citations. Books are catalogued,
NOT queued or delivered: to put an open-access textbook PDF on the
e-reader, use attach_pdf with item_type="book". Pass collections
to file it topically (created on demand). A title that matches only
loosely returns the closest candidate for you to confirm rather than
guessing. Deduplicates by ISBN.
Tool call template
Replace each placeholder with a value matching the input schema. Only required parameters are included; add optional parameters as needed.
{
"id": 1,
"jsonrpc": "2.0",
"method": "tools/call",
"params": {
"arguments": {
"identifier": "<identifier>"
},
"name": "add_book"
}
}Input Schema
| Name | Required | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|---|
| identifier | Yes | ||
| collections | No |
Output Schema
| Name | Required | Description | Default |
|---|---|---|---|
| result | Yes |