todoist - Fetching the list of projects with python library

Question

I am specifically trying to get the project id given the project name. I saw in the api the api.sync() is supposed to return to me all the projects as in array in a key which I was then planning to iterate through.

I tried using sync with the python library but my projects array is empty, is it some sort of promise mechanism if so how do I wait for success response in python language?

import todoist
api = todoist.TodoistAPI(token)
response = api.sync()
projects = response['projects']
for project in projects:
   print(project['name'] + '-' + project['id'])

Answer 1

The library takes care of the Sync for you. In case you already did a Sync in the past, it stores a hash into your $HOME/.todoist-sync/. I recommend you to try to clean this path and try again.

Answer 2

The python library automatically syncs so the sync method response rarely contains anything useful BUT that information is contained in the api class which has an overridden _find_object method. Therefore you can use the same notation as a dict to find elements - i.e. api['projects'].

I know this is an old question but I'd been having this problem and was struggling to find an answer so hopefully this will be useful to someone at some point!