# urschrei/pyzotero

Pyzotero: a Python client for the Zotero API

Repository: https://github.com/urschrei/pyzotero
Canonical: https://ross.abutalabs.com/products/pyzotero
Homepage: https://pyzotero.readthedocs.org
Language: Python
License: NOASSERTION
License Family: other
Topics: digital-humanities, zotero, citations
Last push: 2026-08-18T09:44:12+00:00

## Health v2 (maintenance only)
Score: 98/100 (v2, computed 2026-09-03T02:20:16.233290+00:00)
- activity 98, release rhythm 98, longevity 100
- inputs: {"age_days": 5665, "days_push": 15, "days_rel": 15, "gap_med": 5, "n_releases_24m": 46}
- flags: no_license
- formula: round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10)

## Adoption (not part of the score)
Stars 1402, forks 132 (observed 2026-08-28T04:04:37.428283+00:00)

## What it is
Pyzotero is a Python client library for the Zotero Web API, supporting reading and writing items in personal and group libraries. It also supports connecting to a locally running Zotero installation without the web API.

## Use cases
- programmatically manage a Zotero reference library from Python
- export citations and bibliography data from Zotero
- bulk-create or update Zotero items in a group library
- read a local Zotero database via the local API without authentication
- integrate reference management into digital humanities research workflows

## When to choose
- you need scripted or automated access to Zotero libraries
- you are building research or digital humanities tooling around Zotero
- you want to interact with a running Zotero app locally without the web API

## When to avoid
- you use a different reference manager like Mendeley or EndNote
- you need a GUI for managing references rather than a programmatic client

## Facets
- artifact type: library
- maturity: active
- function: http-client, sdk
- domain: developer-tools, apis, education
- platform: python, cross-platform
- tags: zotero, citations, reference-management, digital-humanities, bibliography, api-client

## Member repositories
- urschrei/pyzotero (main) score 98

## Provenance
- Observed fields: from GitHub, fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:37.428283+00:00.
- Health v2: computed from the inputs above; adoption is never an input.
- Inferred fields (summary, facets, guidance): AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, on 2026-08-30T04:39:00.240521+00:00, confidence not recorded.
  - readme: https://github.com/urschrei/pyzotero (fetched 2026-08-28T04:04:37.428283+00:00, sha 7e4464c37613)
  - registry_pypi: https://pypi.org/pypi/pyzotero/json (fetched 2026-08-29T11:53:31.486691+00:00, sha ac87ac3b71f1)
- Data as of 2026-08-30T08:39:29.467469+00:00.