zotero Chrome plugin not working for google scholar
When I attempt to save citations to my Zotero from google scholar using Chrome zotero plugin, I receive an error message:“An error occurred while saving this item. See Troubleshooting Translator Issues for more information.” I click the link,but it cannot solve anything.
I'm using proxy to get logged in google scholar.
When I go to the Zotero Connector in extensions and click "options", I see a a "report errors" section with many instances of the following:
[JavaScript Error: "Cannot read property 'url' of undefined" {file: "chrome-extension://ekhagklcjbdpajgpjgmbionohlpdbjgc/background.js" line: 580}]
When I click the "Report error" below that, I get a report number :1617127455, 1062656931.
I submit twice, so I get two report numbers.
Thanks for you help.
I'm using proxy to get logged in google scholar.
When I go to the Zotero Connector in extensions and click "options", I see a a "report errors" section with many instances of the following:
[JavaScript Error: "Cannot read property 'url' of undefined" {file: "chrome-extension://ekhagklcjbdpajgpjgmbionohlpdbjgc/background.js" line: 580}]
When I click the "Report error" below that, I get a report number :1617127455, 1062656931.
I submit twice, so I get two report numbers.
Thanks for you help.
Some more questions:
And Zotero consistently fails to import still?
Could we get a URL of a google scholar search from which you're importing just in case?
Could you try with all other Chrome extensions disabled?
Do you have particularly strict privacy settings? I think Zotero may need to be allowed to set third party cookies for GS import to work.
https://scholar.google.co.za/scholar?q="access+to+medication"+"South+Africa"&hl=en&as_sdt=0,5&oq=a
I've now tried with all other extensions disabled and the problem persists. I've tried playing around with the privacy settings in Google Chrome as well, without success. Could the issue relate to my antivirus in some way? I'm using the free version of AVG.
Could we get a debug ID from the Chrome connector for trying to save a single item from the above linked search?
https://www.zotero.org/support/debug_output#zotero_connectors_firefox_chrome_and_safari
But the problem still there.
I get a debug id , 1339533341, please check it.
Thank you again.
The report id is 1639087784
The debug id is D1489654789
The report id is 1789955371
So that means I cannot use zotero in off-campus proxy.
Thank you for your answering.
Just a little inconvenient.
Using off-campus proxy to get paper, then not using proxy get cite information.
But it works.
Thank you for patient answering.
So what I'm suggesting is to delete scholar.google.com from the proxy entry for your university's proxy server in the Zotero Connector preferences so that it doesn't try to redirect your requests to Google Scholar through the proxy and then to load Google Scholar directly yourself without going through the proxy, so that it just says scholar.google.com in the address bar.
It's true that the links from Google Scholar to publisher sites won't then go through the proxy initially, but once you visit each publisher site through the proxy (which you can usually do quickly by appending the "library3…" to the domain), Zotero will learn those and start doing the redirection for you.
In any case, even if you can't get this to work, you can still use Google Scholar via the proxy and save to Zotero just by clicking through to the publisher's site and saving from there. You'll usually get better data from the publisher's site anyway.
It really works even using off-campus proxy when I append the school domain in “Disable proxy redirection when my domain name contains” under the “Enable proxy redirection”. And Both options are checked.
A lot of thanks.
The thing that would've fixed it would be removing scholar.google.com from the list of proxied hosts and then connecting directly to Google Scholar (instead of going through your university's library website, which might send you through the proxy).