Marxists.org site translator

patrick.brian.mooney · August 4, 2014

Would love to have a site translator for marxists.org. It's a rather large document library in which I find a lot of useful material. For instance, I've about to manually add this article, but it would be nice to have Zotero scrape it and add it without manual intervention: https://www.marxists.org/archive/lukacs/works/1936/young-werther.htm

Thank you for an excellent piece of software.

aurimas · August 5, 2014

That website does not provide metadata in any structured format. Even the "unstructured" metadata that it provides on the page varies in format quite a bit. E.g. compare to https://www.marxists.org/reference/subject/philosophy/works/ot/avineri5.htm and https://www.marxists.org/reference/archive/croce/works/marx/ch02.htm

Considering the limited amount of metadata that is available (title, author, year in most cases), it's probably a lot easier to just right-click -> Save Zotero Snapshot and edit the resulting item. You'd get the Snapshot and most of the metadata in the title.

patrick.brian.mooney · August 5, 2014

Ah, I hadn't looked comparatively at the various articles. Darnit. Thanks for your attention, and I appreciate the suggestion. (=