google scholar error

Sunita Barve · July 6, 2016

I am trying to download records from scholar.google.com but after reaching around 6th page it throws error as Could not save item an error occurred while saving this item. Check "Troubleshooting Translator Issues" for more information. I tried setting/resetting translator but it does not allow to save records after 5th page. Is there any solution for the same.

adamsmith · July 6, 2016

My guess would be that you're getting locked out (temporarily) of downloading metadata from google scholar if you download too much too rapidly as an anti-bot measure. To test, click on the Cite --> "bibtex" link when you encounter this issue and see what happens. If I'm right about this, there's nothing Zotero can do about this.

dhtresearch · July 28, 2016

I am having the same issue. Was working fine earlier today and then just stopped. Zotero is able to properly download records from Worldcat but not Google Scholar.

dstillman · July 29, 2016

See adamsmith's response above.