from zoteroconf import user_id, user_key # http://pyzotero.readthedocs.org/en/latest/index.html from pyzotero import zotero zot = zotero.Zotero(user_id, user_key) items = zot.top() for item in items: try: print 'Author: %s | Title: %s' % (item['creators'][0]['lastName'] if item['creators'] else '', item['title']) except Exception, e: print "Error: %s " % (e)