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Google Patents is not working ("Could not save item"), on any patent. Example:
http://www.google.com/patents/about?id=j5NSAAAAEBAJ
Zotero 2.1.8, Firefox 4.0.1, Windows 7, all translators updated just now. There is nothing about this in the known translator issues page either, so I'm posting here.
http://www.google.com/patents/about?id=j5NSAAAAEBAJ
Zotero 2.1.8, Firefox 4.0.1, Windows 7, all translators updated just now. There is nothing about this in the known translator issues page either, so I'm posting here.
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.
Still, post here if any issues come up as you keep using the translator.
http://www.google.com/patents/about?id=KchEAAAAEBAJ
With both the newest stable version of Zotero as well as the beta
Zotero 3.0b2 (de/us), Firefox 6.0.1 (de/us), Windows 7 (de), all translators updated. Also tried the above.
This addresses some saving issues, although I'm not 100% sure it will fix your issue. If this works for you, please post here so that I can submit this change to be pushed to all users.
If it doesn't work, please provide a new report ID.
I think also that this translator should set country to "U.S." automatically as all patents in Google database are U.S. patents (see http://www.google.fr/googlepatents/about.html)
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.
http://www.google.com/patents?hl=en&lr=&vid=USPAT5139901&id=mHsiAAAAEBAJ&oi=fnd&dq=NH3+lithium+battery&printsec=abstract#v=onepage&q=NH3%20lithium%20battery&f=false
I tried installing the translator file recommended on Oct. 16th to no use.
I am using chrome 16, Zotero standalone 3.0.1, and my report ID is 1839355118
Now I started to play around with translators (hoping to write ones for EU and German patens), and looked first into the Google Patents translator.
It appears, the/a problem is: the function detectWeb() looks whether substring "id=" is present in the URL, then return the document type "patent"
In most cases the "id=" is abscent: Google just changed something.
However, on the "Overview" type of patent view, in most (see below for exception) cases I tested the substring "ei=" is present.
I have replaced "id=" by "ei=" in the translator (file "Google Patents.js", line 23), and now both functions (detectWeb and doWeb) appear to work properly from Zotero Scaffold: the first one returns type "patent", the second one parses the page OK.
However, trying to save the data from the Firefox page still results in "Could Not Save Item" error - no idea why. The translator actually used is "Google Patents.js" (hovering the mouse pointer over the "Save to Zotero" icon)
There is another small issue. The URL may be in the form http://www.google.com/patents/US4390992?dq=plasma+Dean+Judd&ei=r6JDT4iDD8fYsgbSmN3qBA
or in the short form
http://www.google.com/patents/US4390992
The data scraping by doWeb looks OK (see below) in both cases, thus detectWeb has to be adjusted.
I could do that and more testing, if somebody explains me, how to find out why I still get the error message (as it apparently works from Scaffold), and probably helps me otherwise.
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From Scaffold:
Returned item:
{
"itemType": "patent",
"creators": [
{
"firstName": "William P.",
"lastName": "Arnold",
"creatorType": "inventor"
}
],
"notes": [],
"tags": [],
"seeAlso": [],
"attachments": [],
"abstractNote": "A rapid, semi-automated method for determining dibucaine numbers is disclosed wherein use is made of a unit dosage form of dibucaine or a test pack containing dibucaine in a unit dosage form.",
"country": "United States",
"extra": "U.S. Classification: 435/20\nInternational Classification: : C12Q 146",
"patentNumber": "4340667",
"date": "Jul 20, 1982",
"filingDate": "May 20, 1980",
"assignee": "The University of Virginia",
"title": "Rapid, semi-automated method for determining dibucaine numbers",
"url": "http://www.google.com/patents/US4340667?dq=plasma+oher&ei=raRDT7a3JsXftAa9_JnnBA",
"libraryCatalog": "Google Patents",
"accessDate": "CURRENT_TIMESTAMP"
}
//h1[@class="gb-volume-title"]
though that's clearly correct - which is why it works in Scaffold. I'll have a closer look later.
Since Scaffold doesn't work properly on FF10 (at least under Ubuntu), I'm currently not doing a lot on translators - it's just very cumbersome. I hope we'll have that sorted out soon.
http://groups.google.com/group/zotero-dev/browse_frm/thread/f259f921f95ea7fd
Download the translator from here:
https://github.com/adam3smith/translators/raw/googlepatents/Google%20Patents.js
and place it in the translator folder in your zotero data directory:
http://www.zotero.org/support/zotero_data , replacing the file of the same name.
This should work from all google patent views. It should also (re-?)establish pdf download for patents.
Please let me know how it goes.
Well, from the search results (patent list) it looks like all data are read in OK.
From the "overview" patent view - also.
But from "patent page" view like one below - the mileage varies. Sometimes it works, but in many cases only limited data are saved, e.g. no inventor names, no abstract, no assignee.
If I understand it correctly, for multiple items list, the script fetches the data not directly from the page, but from other URLs.
Would it make sense to apply the same technique for "patent page" views: get the "overview" page, then scrape the data?
BTW I'm not sure why I got the pages 7-8 of the patent in the link below - I think, I just clicked onto the search result.
http://www.google.com/patents?id=jH4DAAAAEBAJ&pg=PA9&dq=weltmann+plasma&hl=en&sa=X&ei=J4RGT4bWIaPS0QXwuPSKDg&ved=0CD0Q6AEwAw#v=onepage&q=weltmann%20plasma&f=false
It is already loading the overview page for many abstract or pageview items - see. e.g. Darkwraith's link above - but to avoid doing that unnecessarily (i.e. when people are already on the overview page) the translator is testing for the presence of "printsec". That's apparently too restrictive - I'll need to figure out what makes your link a pageview link - the "onepage" may work.
edit: ah yes, I see - testing for either "onepage" or "thumbnail" should work.
http://www.google.com/search?tbm=pts&q=plasma+miller&btnG=
- "could not save" error
An on one of the patents found, namely
http://www.google.com/patents?id=y-__AQAAEBAJ&printsec=frontcover&dq=plasma+miller&hl=en&sa=X&ei=ZbNGT9PsEsyK4gTk1dnWDg&ved=0CE8Q6AEwCQ
also the same error.
On doWeb from Scaffold on this page -
fileName => chrome://zotero/content/xpcom/translation/translate.js
lineNumber => 550
string => Error: No title specified for item
I'll think about whether we can just add those to the regex finding the IDs - seems like it should be OK. If you don't mind try a couple more and see if you can find anything else. Otherwise I'll add the underscore and that should be it.
...id=[a-zA-Z0-9]...
which might probably result in failure in some cases, if I understand it correctly
I'm resurrecting an old thread rather than starting a new one, because it could be a transient problem this time too. Incidentally, I've recently installed MLZ, but my understanding is that MLZ relies on the same translators as Zotero.
MLZ uses a separate channel for updating translators, that includes some variants of the standard ones, to provide support for legal and multilingual metadata where it is available. Changes to the standard translators are merged in from time to time though (about once a week), so the changes aurimas is working on will feed through to MLZ pretty soon after they are released.
Thanks for the information. I can wait patiently as long as I know it's coming. :-)