Hi, I have set my environment variables and when I run npm test as instructed, I receive the following result:

> @cboulanger/[email protected] test
> tsc && npx ts-node test.ts

TypeError: Cannot read properties of undefined (reading '30')
    at Sync.login (/Users/josh/Documents/GitHub/zotero-sync-bookends/node_modules/@retorquere/zotero-sync/index.js:32:38)
    at processTicksAndRejections (node:internal/process/task_queues:95:5)
    at /Users/josh/Documents/GitHub/zotero-sync-bookends/test.ts:41:5

Can you help me troubleshoot this?

Also, I had bookends-api working on my previous versions of Zotero and Bookends. Is it possible that that still works with updated versions if I can't get this working?

Hi, I'm almost done with my dissertation! Thanks for your help over the years. Do you have a patreon or paypal so I can send a little appreciation your way?

I'm trying to get zotero-sync-bookends up and running again on my M1 mac after a while. I don't know what happened to my previous setup because the api key and bookends db name were both at default in my local repo. Anyways...starting over.

What I've done so far

reading through the readme and following instructions**

• add path to ENV variable so that zotero-sync-bookends can find node library
  • cd ../usr/bin/
  • export PATH=/Users/josh/node_modules:PATH
  • export PATH=/Users/josh/Documents/Bookends:$PATH // not sure if this is necessary but I can't see how else it knows how to find the bookends db

created a new key in Zotero portal online

The following links are accessible:

• my key works: https://api.zotero.org/keys/current?key=loremipsum
• I have access to groups: https://api.zotero.org/users/loremipsum/groups?key=loremipsum

edited lines 29 and 30 in /Users/josh/node_modules/@cboulanger/zotero-sync-bookends/test.ts

• zotero_api_key = "loremipsum";
• bookends_db_name = "2022-09-21 bookends db";

install node packages

• cd /Users/josh/node_modules/@cboulanger/zotero-sync-bookends
• npm install

run!

• npm test

Errors

I get 6 errors from /src/index.ts.

> @cboulanger/[email protected] test
> tsc && npx ts-node test.ts

src/index.ts:105:7 - error TS18046: 'e' is of type 'unknown'.

105       e.lastJxaCmd = cmd;
          ~

src/index.ts:162:11 - error TS18046: 'e' is of type 'unknown'.

162       if (e.message.includes("-1728")) {
              ~

src/index.ts:313:11 - error TS18046: 'e' is of type 'unknown'.

313       if (e.message.includes("-1728")) {
              ~

src/index.ts:329:11 - error TS18046: 'e' is of type 'unknown'.

329       if (e.message.includes("-1728")) {
              ~

src/index.ts:378:17 - error TS18046: 'e' is of type 'unknown'.

378             if (e.message.includes("-1712")) {
                    ~

src/index.ts:380:15 - error TS2322: Type 'unknown' is not assignable to type 'string | null'.

380               error = e;
                  ~~~~~


Found 6 errors in the same file, starting at: src/index.ts:105

Index.ts

Here's the section of index.ts that I think it's referencing in the error:

As I understand it, you are doing a one-way zotero > bookends sync. Is it practical to do this the other way round, treat bookends as the "upstream" database, and mirror those changes to a zotero one? The use case is that I prefer to search/add/build references in bookends, but want to share them with others. Syncing to a zotero mirror would solve this.