How to use pyzotero to access Zotero 7 beta local API server ?

xxie-cect0

As is shown in this page: https://groups.google.com/g/zotero-dev/c/ElvHhIFAXrY/m/fA7SKKwsAgAJ
Zotero has already set up a local API server since Zotero 7 beta 88, and the local API shares almost the same interfaces with online server API.
I'm going to access my local zotero user library via pyzotero, and luckily found that the API endpoint in pyzotero can be accessed and set as another url base address (https://github.com/urschrei/pyzotero/blob/9ca972620cd7927d9de265c1b7c3ce270e5ef9d3/src/pyzotero/zotero.py#L270).
As is shown in the local server code (https://github.com/zotero/zotero/blob/main/chrome/content/zotero/xpcom/localAPI/server_localAPI.js), the local API server can be accessed at http://localhost:23119/api/ .
However, when I have set zotero.Zotero.endpoint to http:///localhost:23119/api/, the request URL is not properly generated:
```python
from pyzotero import zotero

zot = zotero.Zotero(ZOTERO_LIBRARY_ID, "user", ZOTERO_LOCAL_API_KEY)
zot.endpoint = "http://localhost:23119/api/"
items = zot.top(limit=10)
```
Has caused:
```
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Users\xxxx\miniforge3\envs\MinerU\lib\site-packages\pyzotero\zotero.py", line 401, in _retrieve_data
self.request.raise_for_status()
File "C:\Users\xxxx\miniforge3\envs\MinerU\lib\site-packages\requests\models.py", line 1024, in raise_for_status
raise HTTPError(http_error_msg, response=self)
requests.exceptions.HTTPError: 404 Client Error: Not Found for url: http://localhost:23119/users/0000000/items/top?limit=10&format=json

The above exception was the direct cause of the following exception:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "F:\paper-qa-utils\zot.py", line 9, in
items = zot.top(limit=10)
File "C:\Users\xxxx\miniforge3\envs\MinerU\lib\site-packages\pyzotero\zotero.py", line 154, in wrapped_f
retrieved = self._retrieve_data(func(self, *args))
File "C:\Users\xxxx\miniforge3\envs\MinerU\lib\site-packages\pyzotero\zotero.py", line 403, in _retrieve_data
error_handler(self, self.request, exc)
File "C:\Users\xxxx\miniforge3\envs\MinerU\lib\site-packages\pyzotero\zotero.py", line 1635, in error_handler
raise error_codes.get(req.status_code)(err_msg(req)) from exc
pyzotero.zotero_errors.ResourceNotFound:
Code: 404
URL: http://localhost:23119/users/000000/items/top?limit=10&format=json
Method: GET
Response: No endpoint found
```

Diving into the process of URL generation of pyzotero, it seems that the endpoint, path and query parameters will be parsed into different blocks and joined together (done by urllib/parser.py), and the "/api/" path is dropped.

Question:
* Did I do something wrong?
* If directly change zotero.Zoter.endpoint is not the correct way to access local API server, is it necessary to change the internal logic of pyzotero and modify the URL generating process by myself? I don't want to fall into this situation because there are lots of URL building calls with endpoint, which means a lot of work.
* Is there any other way to make a walk-around? Like local port forwarding, etc.
Any suggestion is appreciated.

dstillman

Better to post development questions to zotero-dev. We try to keep technical discussions there.

But note that if your question is specific to pyzotero, you should ask the pyzotero developer — we can't help with that. I don't know if pyzotero has been fully updated to work with the local API.