hack the freepatentsonline's translator

USTCdau
I find the freepatentsonline(www.freepatentsonline.com) translator does not work very well, because some pages are not formated very well. For example, there are not "<div class='disp_elm_title'>text</div> "at Title and DocumentType section in the source codes of some old pages. This problem could be solved by register an ID of the website. After login, all pages will be formated very well. But some places in the freepatentsonline translator need to be fix.

open the freepatentsonline.js in profiles\zotero\translators
1. change all "disp_doc2" to "disp_doc"
2. find the "associateData (newItem, dataTags, "Abstract:", "abstract");" change abstract to abstractNote, "associateData (newItem, dataTags, "Abstract:", "abstractNote");"
3(optional). add
dataTags["Abstract:"]=dataTags["Abstract:"].replace(/\s\s\s.*$/g,'');
in function scrape(doc, url), this will remove the google ad in abstract.

After these steps, zotero works very well in freepatentsonline pages.

If there are something wrong, please let me know.
  • ajlyon
    Feel free to post a link to the updated version of freepatentsonline.js to the developer list at http://groups.google.com/group/zotero-dev/ and I will review it for distribution with Zotero (once I catch up on the backlog of reviews I have already).
  • drphyto
    Dear USTCdau;

    I couldn't open the .js to edit it as you outline above. I get the following:

    Script: c:\Documents and Settings\Charles\Application\Data\Mocilla\Firefox\Profiles\hkwjqva5.default\zotero\translators\FreePatentsOnline.js
    Line: 2
    Char: 16
    Error: Expected ';'
    Code: 800A03EC
    Source: Microsoft jScript compilation error

    This is not my bag so could you please help. I read in the zotero documentation that it imported BibTex and so I exported a bunch of patent bibliographies (from freepatentsonline) as BibTex.txt but then zotero says it doesn't recognize the format. So I came across your thread and tried to edit the .js file. That's where I am stuck.

    Charles

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