October 1st : API Dave Arneson Game Day

October 1st became recently the « Dave Arneson Game Day » in honor of the unsung co-author of the first tabletop role-playing game. That an opportunity to test the API of Zotero, ie. a way to request informations from its database.

Arneson's Blackmoor

https://api.zotero.org/groups/446523/items?tag=_arneson&format=bib

• tag : _arneson
• 446523 : database ID
• format=bib : create a bibliography
• & : add a request (AND)

 https://api.zotero.org/groups/446523/items?q=dave+arneson&format=bib

• q= : search words in Creator and Title.
• + : to separate the words, instead of space.

 https://api.zotero.org/groups/446523/items?tag=_arneson&format=bib&tag=-_fr

• -_fr : without the tag _fr (note the dash at the beginning)

 https://api.zotero.org/groups/446523/items?tag=_arneson || _gygax&format=bib

• || (with space before and after, sometimes use %20 instead of space) : used to group item (OR).

 More information on search syntax for Zotero API. The maximum number of references displayes is 150. To browse the full database, visit it at Zotero.