slow import/reload of Zotero library

[ukuvainik]

Thank you for developing such promising software!
My issue is that loading Zotero from citr takes ~2 minutes, also when reupdating.

A typical use case is that I am writing in Rmarkdown. I then realise i need to cite a paper not in my library. I add a paper Zotero via browser. To see that paper in citr, I need to reconnect the Zotero library, which means 2 minutes of waiting to use R.

My library is ~4100 items.

BBT was kind enough to debug the usage on their end, and it seems that BBT handles it in 6 seconds. What could I do to improve the time from citr side?

retorquere/zotero-better-bibtex#1391 (comment)

citr 0.3.2
Rstudio 1.2.1578
R version 3.6.2
Platform: x86_64-pc-linux-gnu (64-bit)

[retorquere]

If it's parsing the returned bibtex is what takes long, citr could request both the CSL and the bib version of the library; CSL should be pretty easy to parse.

[jrennstich]

I think this might be connected to #58.

[crsh]

Thanks for reporting. Closing in favor of #58.