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pyzotero

Pyzotero: a Python client for the Zotero API
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pyzotero has 179K monthly downloads and 1K GitHub stars. Version 1.13.2 supports Python 3.10+, first published in 2013.

It is actively maintained, last released in Jun 2026.

It is built on top of bibtexparser, feedparser and httpx. It is used by 75 tracked packages, including zotero-mcp-server, research-hub-pipeline and zotero-mcp.

GitHub topics include digital-humanities, zotero and citations.

Downloads
Day
5.8K
Week
40.7K
Month
179.1K
Stars
1.4K
Forks
132
Issues
17
Version
1.13.2

Package Insights

What's this?
Score breakdown - each component scores 0-100, weighted by percentage
Maintenance
100
Popularity
65
Adoption
62
Community
40
Provenance
100
How the maintenance status was determined
Last commit
7 days ago
Monthly downloads
179,081
• Active
Activity within 30 days
Stable
Activity within 31-180 days
Minimal
Activity within 181-365 days, or no activity data
At Risk
No activity for > 365 days, but > 10,000 monthly downloads
Archived
Repository flagged as archived on GitHub
How the popularity category was determined
Monthly downloads
179,081
Stars
1,365
Stars per 1k downloads
7.62
Industry Standard
> 10,000,000 monthly downloads
Hidden Gem
< 0.5 stars per 1k downloads and > 100,000 monthly downloads
• Community Favorite
> 5 stars per 1k downloads
Rising Star
Balanced ratio of stars to downloads
Unknown
Fewer than 1,000 monthly downloads, or no star data
How download momentum is calculated
Week daily avg
5,811
Month daily avg
5,969
Momentum
-2.6%
((week_daily_avg - month_daily_avg) / month_daily_avg) * 100
Python version support tiers
requires_python
>=3.10
Cutting Edge
Minimum supported version is 3.12 or newer
• Modern
Minimum supported version is 3.9, 3.10, or 3.11
Legacy
Supports 3.8 or older (or Python 2)
Unknown
No requires_python specified or unparseable
License categories
License
BlueOak-1.0.0
Permissive
MIT, Apache, BSD, ISC, Unlicense, CC0, etc.
Copyleft
GPL, LGPL, AGPL, MPL, EPL, etc.
Proprietary
Commercial, all rights reserved, custom EULAs
• Unknown
No license specified, or none of the above match
How the release cadence was determined
Last release
14 days ago
Total releases
51
Releases/year
3.9
Rapid
Last release within 365 days and > 12 releases/year
• Regular
Last release within 365 days
Slow
Last release 366-730 days ago
Stalled
Last release > 730 days ago, or no releases
Unknown
No usable release date available
How contributor risk was determined
Contributors
24
Monthly downloads
179,081
High Load
≤ 2 contributors and ≥ 50,000 monthly downloads
Moderate Load
< 10 contributors and ≥ 500,000 monthly downloads
Low Load
< 25 contributors and ≥ 5,000,000 monthly downloads, or sole maintainer with ≥ 10,000 monthly downloads
• Balanced
Enough contributors for the package's popularity
Unknown
No contributor data available
Engagement
48
 
Issue Burden
12.5
per 1k stars
Discussions
0.0
per 1k stars
Fork Ratio
18.2%
contrib / forks
Stale Release
No
 
PR Velocity
Quiet
 

Weekly Downloads

GitHub Stars

Not all downloads include detailed metadata. Breakdowns reflect the subset that does.

Downloads by OS

Linux 5.8K
Windows 567
macOS 330

Python Versions

3.11
39.4% 2.6K
3.12
29.2% 1.9K
3.13
21.8% 1.4K
3.10
5.9% 389
3.14
3.7% 246

Top Countries

1. US US
5.6K
2. SG SG
212
3. CN CN
180
4. JP JP
142
5. GB GB
95
6. DE DE
88
7. NL NL
86
8. HK HK
75
9. KR KR
69
10. TW TW
29
GitHub Topics
Tags from the package's GitHub repository describing what it does.

Package Information

License
BlueOak-1.0.0
First Release
June 7, 2013
Last Release
2 weeks ago
Last Commit
1 week ago
Latest Version
1.13.2
Total Releases
51
Contributors
24
Open PRs
4
Archived
No
Author
Stephan Hügel
Python Versions
3.10 3.11 3.12 3.13 3.14
Wheels
py2 py3
Keywords
Zotero DH
Tracking Since
January 6, 2026
Data Updated
July 5, 2026
Data Freshness
Fresh

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