Stellarium API / Local data storage for a telescope project

I am a new intern working at a small stellarium based project and I am new to stellarium too so I am sorry in advance if i have some understandings wrong. I have to build a webpage that has my current coordinates and i am hoping to use stellarium to determine coordinates of destination star by using its name. It would be used with a telescope and determines number of rotations needed for the telescope to go from current point to destination.

In terms of getting the destination coordinates, I have either 2 options: 

1. Either i use stellarium API, and get real time coordinates of a star. But then is there some limitations to it?

2. I store star data in a file locally, maybe like a 1000 famous ones for my location and use that data. Now I am not sure how changing of horizons would work with that. If i store that data locally, i am guessing thats just constant coordinates? Would i need to apply some additional method before i use it? 

I am just starting out and finding the documentation a bit confusing, if someone has some suggestions on any of these aspects, that would be really helpful.