Zotero connector not working on newspaper sites?

sharachchandra

Am using Zotero 5.0.30

Till the other day I had no problem downloading newspaper stories into zotero. But today these links (2 different newspapers) are not working (tried different libraries in case it was storage related).
http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/bangalore/over-900-apartments-yet-to-install-stp-bwssb/article19717156.ece
http://www.deccanherald.com/content/647680/mayor-told-get-stp-rule.html

Any tips?

adomasven

Could you submit a Report ID?

adamsmith

@adomasven do those work for you?

sharachchandra

Report ID: 1097785620

adomasven

See https://www.zotero.org/support/troubleshooting_translator_issues

adomasven

Actually, don't. There is a bunch of [JavaScript Error: "Invalid proxy https://login.%h/%p: TypeError: parts[2].split(...).pop(...).match(...) is null"] errors in the report log.

You should go into Connector Preferences -> Proxy and fix or remove that proxy entry. A proper schema should look something like `https://%h.proxy.university.edu/%p`

Do you have an idea where this entry could have come from?

sharachchandra

There seemed to be a spurious proxy entry below my real one (university related). BUT: "enable proxy redirection" is turned off. so how does this matter. And deleting that entry has not fixed the problem.

sharachchandra

And note that I was not having problems on a Google Scholar journal paper.

adamsmith

What exactly happens, though?

sharachchandra

Problem seems tied to newspapers: when I go to a 3rd newspaper site: https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/opinion/poke-me/poke-me-rallying-to-protect-our-rivers-is-great-but-lets-get-the-science-right/printarticle/60412430.cms
I am able to save to zotero, but the popup says that 'failed to save: error occurred trying to save embedded metadata" or something like that (pop up tends to disappear quickly)

sharachchandra

But just to add that I did not have these problems a few months ago, and have records saved from Deccan Herald as recently as 6th Dec. (certainly post-zotero 5)

adamsmith

which browser which OS? There's something weird about the pages, but still trying to narrow that down.

sharachchandra

Firefox 52.4, Win7x64.
Tried also with Chrome 62. No luck

adamsmith

Do you get the newspaper icon on the Hindu? Have you tried disabling all other addons/Extensions?

sharachchandra

I don't get the newspaper icon on any of the pages: Deccan Herald, Hindu, or even Times of India or Bangalore Mirror

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/bengaluru/old-apartments-in-bengaluru-seek-exemption-from-mandatory-stps/articleshow/60809819.cms

http://bangaloremirror.indiatimes.com/bangalore/others/stp-games-pollution-board-corners-flat-owners/articleshow/61427251.cms?

But from the Times page above, I am able to save to zotero, and no error messages
But not from Bangalore Mirror.

All this is recent, I am sure. So it is likely related to some upgrade in zotero that happened in the last few weeks.

sharachchandra

Reason I have not bothered to try with add-ons disables is a) the same configuration was working a few weeks ago, and b) I encounter the same problem on Chrome, which has a very different set of add-ons

adamsmith

well, it's mostly working for me, so makes sense to remove variables.
FWIW, all these pages take a long time before they're fully loaded for me and trying to save before they're fully loaded does typically fail. If I had to guess, I'd blame this on ads or other common javascript on those pages.