about aps and acs journals

pojeda
Hi,

I am using the standalone version of Zotero 4.0.9 with the connector
for chromium browser in linux.

I can retrieve pdf files and metadata from most of the journals from
acs except for Journal of Chemical Physics (JCP). What I have to do is to
download manually the pdf file and then attach it to the item in
zotero list.

Some times when I try to download the metadata from JCP the zotero connector does not respond (stops working) and the small box with the
label "save to zotero" stays without doing anything.

Another thing, when I try journals from APS some times I can download the metadata and the pdf file but other times I can download the metadata only.

Is it possible to fix these two issues with ACS and APS.

Thanks a lot.
  • adamsmith
    we need sample URLs for each problem.
  • pojeda
    hi,

    here is the URL of a JCP article where the connector doesn't work:

    http://jcp.aip.org/resource/1/jcpsa6/v134/i17/p174105_s1

    about APS journals:

    in this URL I am able to get the metadata but not the pdf file:

    http://prl.aps.org/abstract/PRL/v97/i10/e108101

    for this URL I am able to get both metadata and pdf files:

    http://prl.aps.org/abstract/PRL/v96/i22/e228104

    thanks.
  • adamsmith
    are you using a proxy or are those the URLs as you see them in Chromium?
  • pojeda
    Hi,

    these are the URLs I copied from omnibox of Chromium.

    I am not using a proxy.

    thanks.
  • adamsmith
    edited August 30, 2013
    sorry for taking a while to look at this. I cannot replicate the PRL issue - that works reliably for me via translator - but I can confirm the JCP issue. The connector is getting an error page because of a missing cookie - I'm not sure if this can be fixed, I can have a look, but wouldn't be terribly optimistic.

    Edit: yeah, I don't think this can be done, but maybe Aurimas has an idea.
  • aurimas
    For JCP, PDF downloads will not work currently through connectors because of this issue (it's downloading the PDF from scitation.aip.org, while the page is at jcp.aip.org.

    I think for ACS, there is _sometimes_ a sort of CAPTCHA that comes up when trying to download PDFs. I can't reproduce it right now, but I remember looking into this and I could not figure out what triggered the CAPTCHA (since cookies should be ok). I'll investigate this further.
  • adamsmith
    I'd suspect it's just triggered by downloads/time
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