Internet Archive translator saves wrong data

tbroman · May 20, 2011

I just attempted to save something from the Internet Archive. http://www.archive.org/details/individualityin00chilgoog is the URL (correctly saved by Zotero). However, apart from "Short title" (which I assume just parses the "Title" field and snips off everything after the first colon), "URL" and "Library Catalog", the only field saved was "Title", and it did so incorrectly. Namely, it saved the title of the webpage ("Individuality in organisms : Child, Charles Manning, 1869-1954 : Free Download & Streaming : Internet Archive") rather than the title of the book ("Individuality in Organisms"). It also failed to capture any other relevant information displayed on the page, including Author, Publisher, and Year (all of which were present on the page).

ajlyon · May 21, 2011

Looks like they made some changes to the page code, but I took a shot at updating the translator.

Please go to http://github.com/ajlyon/zotero-bits/raw/master/Internet Archive.js and save the file to the translators directory of your Zotero data directory (http://www.zotero.org/support/zotero_data).

It should start working again. If this works for you, please post here so that I can submit this change to be pushed to all users.

ajlyon · May 21, 2011

The title is still wrong-- I'll get that the next time through.