Zotero Chrome Connector not Retrieving Book Abstracts from Amazon

crispzips · March 4, 2022

Hi, I work for the Isis Current Bibliography. We heavily rely on your service for grabbing citation metadata. I feel like in the past the zotero connector would grab book synopses from amazon and place that data in the "abstract" field for books, but is no longer doing so -- is this a bug or a design feature?

MM287 · March 19, 2022

I have noticed the same since a few months

sagearbor · November 15, 2022

I also had issues with amazon today , using chrome plugin. Saved as a webpage instead of for book. Ive been using zotero for almost a decade but hadn't tried with amazon (usually PubMed) so don't know if user error (if I need to be on a subpage to work).

adamsmith · November 15, 2022

We always need sample URLs for reports of import problems.

crispzips · May 15, 2024

it's happening again with every book from amazon but here is one example: https://www.amazon.com/Life-Permafrost-History-Russian-Science/dp/1487501935/ref=sr_1_1?dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.dVUioysUGYwjhm19xV1b4w.lkWJqxZ_enR3lXiAT1b-pLYOGYxTmOu2iJXw-aclxJo&dib_tag=se&keywords=The+Life+of+Permafrost:+A+History+of+Frozen+Earth+in+Russian+and+Soviet+Science&qid=1715801144&sr=8-1

shannagonzalez · May 19, 2024

I am also having this problem on a new installation of Zotero. The connect successfully imports the abstract along with other metadata on my old computer, and versions are the same. I've tried reinstalling Chrome and Zotero.

shannagonzalez · May 19, 2024

It's the same with Firefox.