Can't retrieve groups metadata.

[nigini]

Platform: Ubuntu
Python version: 3.8
Pyzotero version: 1.5.2

Problem Description

• What were you trying to do?
  I am trying to retrieve the metadata about the current api_key groups as described here: https://pyzotero.readthedocs.io/en/latest/#zotero.Zotero.groups

• What API call did it involve

zot = zotero.Zotero(test_conf['library_id'], test_conf['library_type'], test_conf['api_key'])
zot_library = zot.groups()

• What error was raised?
  No error, the call goes through just fine. The problem is, even though I can retrieve items with items = zot.top(limit=5) and I can see the metadata about the group in each item correctly, the zot.groups() call is returning an empty list.

More Details

The api_key I am using is configured as follows:

• Personal Library: none
• Default Group Permissions: none
• Per Group Permissions: 'read/write' for one group only.

[FedeMont]

I have the same problem. Has anyone found a way to resolve it?

[urschrei]

If your API call is the same as above, you are almost certainly trying to retrieve groups from a shared library for which you don't have the relevant permissions. I can't reproduce the problem in general, and you haven't provided an example, so this is just a guess.

[FedeMont]

Hi Stephan, thank you for your reply.
I'm not sure about the shared library, but the group is shared, and I'm an admin of it.
All permissions are set to 'read/write' in the Default Group Permissions and in Per Group Permissions too.
The example is exactly as the one above. I created the Zotero object with my API_key, library_type is 'group', and library_id is the ID of the group I am trying to retrieve the groups information from.