Accessing Saved Searches

tzucker
I read that saved searches are already synced to one's cloud account. Yet they are not accessible, they are apparently hidden. I would like to be able to access these searches. I am currently using zotpress to display my zotero library on my wordpress website.

What is the ETA of this being implemented. Or better yet a way to access zotero collections and searches without a third party plugin (although the author of Zotpress has been excellent I subscribe to the KISS axiom).
  • adamsmith
    Saved searches are accessible via API v3 (the default):
    https://www.zotero.org/support/dev/web_api/v3/basics
    i.e. in your case
    https://api.zotero.org/users/1099825/searches?v=3&key=<key>;
    but that returns the search conditions, not the items in the searches -- you'd then have to re-run the searches via API to build the item list. I don't know the API well enough to say if that's possible and how hard that'd be.
  • tzucker
    Thanks unfortunately I am not a programmer and do not have any experience with APIs. I was hoping that GM would do this or the writer of the wordpress plugin. Katie, the writer of the WP plugin, said that it is low on the long list of things to do, so I guess I'll have to keep running searches and putting the results in collections to display them.

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