Zotero-better-bibtex: url field is having its special characters escaped in BBT Bibtex

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Thank you!

When I compile this:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\bibliographystyle{plainnat}

\usepackage{filecontents}
\begin{filecontents}{\jobname.bib}
@misc{AvelarQueAUC2019,
  title = {{O que \'e AUC e ROC nos modelos de Machine Learning}},
  author = {Avelar, Adriano},
  year = {2020},
  month = sep,
  url = {https://medium.com/@eam.avelar/o-que-\%C3\%A9-auc-e-roc-nos-modelos-de-machine-learning-2e2c4112033d},
  urldate = {2020-11-23},
  abstract = {Em aprendizagem de m\'aquina, a medi\c{c}\~ao de desempenho \'e uma tarefa crucial. As m\'etricas ROC (Receiver Operating Characteristics) e AUC (Area\ldots},
  language = {pt-BR}
}
\end{filecontents}

\begin{document}

\nocite{*}

\bibliography{\jobname.bib}

\end{document}

I get the URL as expected.

When I compile this:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\bibliographystyle{plainnat}

\usepackage{filecontents}
\begin{filecontents}{\jobname.bib}
@misc{AvelarQueAUC2019,
  title = {{O que \'e AUC e ROC nos modelos de Machine Learning}},
  author = {Avelar, Adriano},
  year = {2020},
  month = sep,
  url = {https://medium.com/@eam.avelar/o-que-%C3%A9-auc-e-roc-nos-modelos-de-machine-learning-2e2c4112033d},
  urldate = {2020-11-23},
  abstract = {Em aprendizagem de m\'aquina, a medi\c{c}\~ao de desempenho \'e uma tarefa crucial. As m\'etricas ROC (Receiver Operating Characteristics) e AUC (Area\ldots},
  language = {pt-BR}
}
\end{filecontents}

\begin{document}

\nocite{*}

\bibliography{\jobname.bib}

\end{document}

I get an error, and no URL is output. So it looks like for bibtex, the escaping is necessary.

BTW, if you send a debug log via the steps described in point 1, I get sent the reference in debug log format automatically; my workflow is built around that. This worked though.

Sorry about the debug stuff. Lesson learned.
Thanks for the quick response. I thought it was a bug in Zotero considering that is a verbatim field. But it seems is not. Im using a flavored bibtex from my university and I'm getting an error with the url with escape chars. I'm suspecting they using some old macros to parse the bib file

Thanks a lot

No worries about the debug log -- I'm happy you sent one. You wouldn't believe how stubborn people can be about sending them. It's one of the primary reasons I built @label-gun, because it would be practically a given people would not send one no matter how I pleaded.

WRT the URL -- things are more complicated than I had thought. It is true that

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\bibliographystyle{plainnat}

\usepackage{filecontents}
\begin{filecontents}{\jobname.bib}
@misc{AvelarQueAUC2019,
  title = {{O que \'e AUC e ROC nos modelos de Machine Learning}},
  author = {Avelar, Adriano},
  year = {2020},
  month = sep,
  url = {https://medium.com/@eam.avelar/o-que-%C3%A9-auc-e-roc-nos-modelos-de-machine-learning-2e2c4112033d},
  urldate = {2020-11-23},
  abstract = {Em aprendizagem de m\'aquina, a medi\c{c}\~ao de desempenho \'e uma tarefa crucial. As m\'etricas ROC (Receiver Operating Characteristics) e AUC (Area\ldots},
  language = {pt-BR}
}
\end{filecontents}

\begin{document}

\nocite{*}

\bibliography{\jobname.bib}

\end{document}

gives me an error, but

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\bibliographystyle{plainnat}
\usepackage{url} % <------------------- this right here
\usepackage{filecontents}
\begin{filecontents}{\jobname.bib}
@misc{AvelarQueAUC2019,
  title = {{O que \'e AUC e ROC nos modelos de Machine Learning}},
  author = {Avelar, Adriano},
  year = {2020},
  month = sep,
  url = {https://medium.com/@eam.avelar/o-que-%C3%A9-auc-e-roc-nos-modelos-de-machine-learning-2e2c4112033d},
  urldate = {2020-11-23},
  abstract = {Em aprendizagem de m\'aquina, a medi\c{c}\~ao de desempenho \'e uma tarefa crucial. As m\'etricas ROC (Receiver Operating Characteristics) e AUC (Area\ldots},
  language = {pt-BR}
}
\end{filecontents}

\begin{document}

\nocite{*}

\bibliography{\jobname.bib}

\end{document}

compiles just fine. I'll have to think about how to deal with both situations.

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Problem solved. It's worked perfectly.
Thanks a lot. It's save me a lot of time

Cool, thanks for the confirmation. A new release is building.

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