Batch Snapshot

Rana

Hello,

I was wondering if it's possible to batch snapshot multiple pages?
for example an article with 50 pages in an address like :
http://www.something.com/article/page1.htm , page2.htm, ..., page50.htm

so for example i just type http://www.something.com/article/page[1-50].htm and zotero gets all the pages as snapshots?

dstillman

http://forums.zotero.org/discussion/3776/

Rana

Actually i read that before. but there's a difference. the feature requested there is to save all LINKS in a page as snapshots. while i'm more looking for manually entering the address with expressions like [1-50].

for example if i want to save snapshots of 20 pages of a blog with the method on that post, i can't. since there's not a page with links to all those 20 pages. there's just "next" and "previous" links in each page to navigate.

but with this method i could enter the address "http://someblog.com/?page=[1-20]" and it would be much easier.

dstillman

Yes, but the answer is the same.

Someone could easily write a Zotero plugin that did this in a few lines of JavaScript, but I don't see this functionality getting integrated into Zotero itself, among other reasons because it would be a pretty big departure from the way Zotero works currently. (You suggest that you would "just type" in such a pattern, but, of course, there's nowhere to do anything like that in Zotero.)

It could also be done with existing command line tools (at least on OS X or Linux), and the resulting files could then be dragged into Zotero, but the original URLs wouldn't be preserved (unless you also built up an import file as well).

Rana

I see. Thank you for your answer. I will try writing a plugin in my spare time. i still need to learn many things though :)