pyzotero-local

A Python tool kit for interacting with the locally hosted Zotero database.

Features

• Well-designed api with typehint, very easy to use.
• All path will be located automatically, no need to assign it manually.

Install

pip install zolocal

Usage

access dataset

access zotero local database and query values

from pprint import pprint
from pyzolocal.sqls import gets as g

pprint(g.get_attachments()[:3])
pprint(g.get_items_info()[:3])
    # more get function including tag/ collection/ creator/ type

read profile

get profile root and profiles (from this)

from pprint import pprint
from pyzolocal.prefs import prefjs_fn
from pyzolocal.prefs.gets import (get_and_parse_user_prefs,
                                  search_user_prefs,
                                  get_and_parse_user_pref)
from pyzolocal.prefs.common import dataDir

pprint(dataDir())
pprint(prefjs_fn())
pprint(get_and_parse_user_prefs())

# =============================
\path\to\dataDir
\path\to\prefs.js
{'app.update.download.attempts': 0,
 'app.update.elevate.attempts': 0,
 'app.update.lastUpdateTime.addon-background-update-timer': 1613312615,
    ...}

sync profile

compress your user Profile

from pyzolocal.sync.base import bundle,dump

bundle('./')
dump('./Profiles.zip',...)

global search

index and global search files (supported by whoosh)

you need to install whoosh manually by pip install whoosh

from pprint import pprint
from pyzolocal.files import index, search_content

index() # run once when attahed file updated
res = search_content('my file')
pprint(res)


# ========================
{'base': {'doc_count': 42, 'hit_count': 5, 'result_count': 5},
 'result': [{'contents': ['training and validation). However, 15 of 457 videos '
                          'are invalid (<b class="match term0">file</b> '
                          'corrupted or have no transcript), so we move 15 '
                          'videos from the development set to the testing'],
             'path': 'storage\\AAZW6H2B\\... .pdf',
             'title': 'Learning Semantic Concepts and Temporal Alignment'},
...}

web api for local database

by fastapi

from pyzolocal.apis.fastapi import get_fastapis

app = get_fastapis()

then start it by uvicorn or other asgi framework.

see fastapi_demo

by flask

from pyzolocal.apis.flask import get_flaskapis

app = get_flaskapis()
app.run()

then visit http://127.0.0.1:8000/docs to view api list

TODOs

• compatible with MacOS and Linux
• more synchronize function
• pyqt5 wrapper

Development

git clone https://github.com/sailist/pyzotero-local
cd pyzotero-local
python setup.py sdist bdist_wheel

file structure

pyzolocal
│
├─apis
│  │  base.py # for locally web api
│  │  fastapi.py # TODO
│  └─ flask.py  # TODO
│
├─beans  # data structure
│  │  enum.py
│  │  struct.py
│  └─ types.py
│
├─files  # for global search
│  │  base.py
│  └─ gets.py
│
├─prefs  # for reading profiles 
│  │  base.py
│  │  common.py
│  └─ gets.py
│
├─sqls  # for accessing database 
│  │  base.py 
│  └─ gets.py
│
└─sync  # for back-up
   │  base.py
   │  bypy.py # TODO
   │  ftp.py  # TODO 
   └─ gists.py # TODO

License

GNU © Haozhe Yang

Related repos

• qnotero, Standalone sidekick to the Zotero reference manager
• pyzotero, A Python client for the Zotero Web API