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Connectors / Documents and e-signature · HTTP Connector
Automate Mendeley with Tray.ai
Create a document, create a folder and create an annotation in Mendeley. Connect Mendeley to the rest of your documents and e-signature stack with Tray.ai.
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What can you do with Mendeley on Tray.ai?
Mendeley is a reference manager from Elsevier where researchers store papers, add notes and highlights, organise folders and share libraries in groups. Tray.ai connects to Mendeley through the HTTP Connector, so your workflows can call the Mendeley API alongside the rest of your stack.
- Retrieve annotations and export them to your team's shared notes.
- Search the catalog for new papers on a topic and post them to your research team chat.
- Create a document for each paper added to your lab's reading list spreadsheet.
- Connects through
- HTTP Connector
- Authentication
- OAuth 2.0
- Base URL
- https://api.mendeley.com
What the Mendeley API covers
6 resources and 20 documented actions, each one a call the HTTP Connector can make from a Tray.ai workflow.
Documents
- Retrieve documents
- Create a document
- Update a document
- Delete a document
Folders
- List folders
- Create a folder
- Add a document to a folder
- Delete a folder
Annotations
- Retrieve annotations
- Create an annotation
- Update an annotation
- Delete an annotation
Files
- Upload a file
- Download a file
- Delete a file
Groups
- Retrieve groups
- Retrieve a group
- Retrieve group members
Catalog
- Search the catalog
- Retrieve a catalog document
Checked against Mendeley's own documentation on 2026-11-07
How Tray.ai makes this work
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Frequently asked questions
What can a Tray.ai workflow do in Mendeley?
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The Mendeley API documents 20 actions across 6 resources (Documents, Folders, Annotations, Files, Groups, Catalog). For example: Retrieve documents; List folders; Retrieve annotations. A workflow can make any documented call through the HTTP Connector.
How does Tray.ai authenticate with Mendeley?
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The Mendeley API uses OAuth 2.0. You save it once as a Tray.ai authentication, and the HTTP Connector adds it to every request.
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