New York Times archives - translator not working

qenghis
The translator icon is not appearing for old archived NYT articles such as:
http://query.nytimes.com/gst/abstract.html?res=F30D15FD3F5813738DDDAC0894DB405B828DF1D3

It was working for me before but seems to have stopped recently, perhaps with the upgrade to FF6.

The translator works fine for current NYT articles and other sites.

I have Zotero 2.1.8 for Firefox 6.0 on a Mac with Leopard 10.5.8.

Thank you for your assistance. Zotero is a fantastic tool.
  • adamsmith
    Please go to https://gist.github.com/raw/1184005/4e68589d457b544f40c1cb8cff9529dfae17ecc8/NYTimes.com.js and save the file to the translators directory of your Zotero data directory (http://www.zotero.org/support/zotero_data), replacing the old file. Restart Firefox.

    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.

    If this worked before, the NYT must have changed the way the URLs work. This won't attach the pdf of the article - did it used to do that, too?
  • qenghis
    That fixed it! Thank you very much for the quick response.
  • qenghis
    While I'm on the topic, just a quick feature request. These NYT archive pages show only abstracts. You have to download the pdf manually. It would be great if zotero could automatically do that. I think that it does that for some other sources. Should I start a new thread for that request?
  • adamsmith
    yeah, do start a new thread - that would be a larger change in the translator.
  • qenghis
    Will do. Thanks again.

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