This page documents the methods to access full-text content of Zotero items via the Zotero Server API. See the Read Requests page for basic information on accessing the API, including possible HTTP status codes not listed here.

GET <userOrGroupPrefix>/fulltext?newer=<version>

Content-Type: application/json
Last-Modified-Version: <library version>

{
    "<itemKey>": <version>,
    "<itemKey>": <version>,
    "<itemKey>": <version>
}

For each item with a full-text content version greater than stored locally, get the item's full-text content, as described below.

GET <userOrGroupPrefix>/items/<itemKey>/fulltext

<itemKey> should correspond to an existing attachment item.

Content-Type: application/json
Last-Modified-Version: <version of item's full-text content>

{
    "content": "This is full-text content.",
    "indexedPages": 50,
    "totalPages": 50
}

indexedChars and totalChars may be provided instead of indexedPages and totalPages.

PUT <userOrGroupPrefix>/items/<itemKey>/fulltext
Content-Type: application/json

{
    "content": "This is full-text content.",
    "indexedChars": 26,
    "totalChars": 26
}

<itemKey> should correspond to an existing attachment item.

indexedPages and totalPages can be provided instead of indexedChars and totalChars.

See the q and qmode search parameters.