ISBN not found, even though at isbnsearch.com

John_muccigrosso

Just wondering if perhaps another ISBN search engine might be worth consulting. If I read the debug log right (attached below), Zotero looks at LOC, WorldCat and Lulu. The ISBN I have isn't in any of these, but it is at isbnsearch.com (978-0692281024).

http://www.isbnsearch.org/isbn/9780692281024


Log

[JavaScript Error: "No items returned from any translator"]

[JavaScript Error: "No items returned from any translator"]

[JavaScript Error: "TypeError: temp is null" {file: "chrome://global/content/bindings/preferences.xml" line: 1197}]

[JavaScript Error: "No items returned from any translator"]

version => 4.0.22, platform => MacIntel, oscpu => Intel Mac OS X 10.9, locale => en-US, appName => Zotero, appVersion => 4.0.22

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(4)(+0000000): Translate: Binding sandbox to http://www.example.com/

(4)(+0000003): Translate: Parsing code for EIDR

(4)(+0000001): Translate: Parsing code for CrossRef

(4)(+0000002): Translate: Parsing code for Library of Congress ISBN

(4)(+0000002): Translate: Parsing code for DataCite

(4)(+0000001): Translate: Parsing code for NCBI PubMed

(4)(+0000002): Translate: Parsing code for Open WorldCat

(4)(+0000002): Translate: Parsing code for Lulu

(4)(+0000000): Translate: Parsing code for mEDRA

(4)(+0000002): Translate: Parsing code for Airiti

(3)(+0000001): Translate: All translator detect calls and RPC calls complete

(4)(+0000000): Translate: Parsing code for Library of Congress ISBN

(3)(+0000000): Translate: Beginning translation with Library of Congress ISBN

(3)(+0000000): HTTP GET http://lx2.loc.gov:210/LCDB?operation=searchRetrieve&version=1.1&query=bath.ISBN=^9780692281024&maximumRecords=1

(3)(+0000067): Translate: Creating translate instance of type import in sandbox

(4)(+0000000): Translate: Binding sandbox to http://www.example.com/

(4)(+0000002): Translate: Parsing code for MARCXML

(3)(+0000001): Translate: Beginning translation with MARCXML

(3)(+0000001): Translate: Creating translate instance of type import in sandbox

(4)(+0000000): Translate: Binding sandbox to http://www.example.com/

(4)(+0000001): Translate: Parsing code for MARC

(3)(+0000003): Translate: Translation successful

(5)(+0000000): Translate: Running handler 0 for done

(3)(+0000000): Translate: Could not find a result using Library of Congress ISBN

(4)(+0000000): Translate: Parsing code for Open WorldCat

(3)(+0000001): Translate: Beginning translation with Open WorldCat

(3)(+0000003): Created hidden browser (0)

(3)(+0000000): Zotero.HTTP.processDocuments: Loading http://www.worldcat.org/search?qt=results_page&q=bn%3A9780692281024

(3)(+0000499): Zotero.HTTP.processDocuments: http://www.worldcat.org/search?qt=results_page&q=bn%3A9780692281024 loaded

(3)(+0000001): Translate: Could not find a result using Open WorldCat

(4)(+0000000): Translate: Parsing code for Lulu

(3)(+0000000): Translate: Beginning translation with Lulu

(3)(+0000004): Created hidden browser (1)

(3)(+0000000): Zotero.HTTP.processDocuments: Loading http://www.lulu.com/shop/search.ep?keyWords=9780692281024

(3)(+0003265): Zotero.HTTP.processDocuments: http://www.lulu.com/shop/search.ep?keyWords=9780692281024 loaded

(3)(+0000005): Created hidden browser (2)

(3)(+0000000): Zotero.HTTP.processDocuments: Loading http://www.lulu.com/shop/ed-seeman/fabulous-fractals/paperback/product-21709942.html

(3)(+0002009): Zotero.HTTP.processDocuments: http://www.lulu.com/shop/ed-seeman/fabulous-fractals/paperback/product-21709942.html loaded

(3)(+0000006): Translate: Could not find a result using Lulu

(2)(+0000000): Translate: Translation using Lulu failed:
thrown exception => No items returned from any translator
url => undefined
downloadAssociatedFiles => true
automaticSnapshots => true

(5)(+0000000): Translate: Running handler 0 for done

(5)(+0000802): Translate: Running handler 1 for done

(3)(+0000003): Deleted hidden browser (2)

(5)(+0000000): Translate: Running handler 2 for done

(3)(+0000003): Deleted hidden browser (1)

(5)(+0000000): Translate: Running handler 3 for done

(3)(+0000010): Deleted hidden browser (0)

adamsmith

(you should update to Zotero 4.0.23, though it's unrelated to this).

isbnsearch.com doesn't help us, though, since they don't, as far as I can tell, provide any metadata. So if something isn't on Worldcat or Lulu, I think we're out of luck and you'll have to do this by hand (or maybe from Amazon -- though not sure how well that will work).

John_muccigrosso

(Thanks for the upgrade tip. I had just updated, but I guess they're incremental?)

Yeah, I see that. It's just frustrating that Zotero fails to find it when lots of sites do.