Function to return number of all items in "My Library"?

[Erotemic]

In my usage of pyzotero I see that zot.items, seems to return all items in "My Library", but zot.num_items, only returns the number of top-level items in the library. I only see one more function that references the number of items and that's zot.num_collectionitems, which can return the number of items in a collection, but is there / can there be a way to quickly total number of items in "My Library"?

Alternatively, is there a way to make pyzotero read from the cache in $HOME/Zotero/zotero.sqlite, so the zot.items call works a bit quicker?

[urschrei]

Just so I understand you correctly, are you asking about the total count of items in "My Library"? Pyzotero doesn't have a specific method for this, but I can certainly add one that will be fast, since that value is returned as a response header.

In answer to your alternative suggestion: Pyzotero will never interact with the local Zotero cache; it's an API client only.

[Erotemic]

Yes, I believe you understand correctly. I'm interested in the total count of items that would be returned by zot.items if you do something like this:

            items = []
            total = zot.num_items()  # FIXME: this is number of toplevel items, not all items
            start_index = 0
            while True:
                next_items = zot.items(limit=cfg.limit, start=start_index)
                if len(next_items) == 0:
                    break
                items.extend(next_items)
                start_index = start_index + len(next_items)
                print('reading items = {} / ~{}'.format(start_index, total), file=sys.stderr)

Note that where I use zot.num_items is where I would want to use zot.count_items.

[urschrei]

OK, v1.3.6, live on PyPI now, has the count_items() method.

[Erotemic]

Thanks so much!