Perlego import translator

bjohas
Hello all,

would anybody fancy building a translator for Perlego? https://www.perlego.com/

I'll also message them to improve the metadata on their pages, but at the moment, looks like a translator is needed.

  • adamsmith
    (decent metadata in JSON-LD; also looks like they might be using CSL for generating citations under the hood)
  • adamsmith
    Issue: https://github.com/zotero/translators/issues/2810
  • bjohas
    @adamsmith - many thanks!
  • paulofp
    thanks for the thread ... is there a simple way to import perlego citations to Zotero yet?
    If I represent it as a web link the publisher does not show?

    thanks
  • brendanoconnell
    Hi @paulofp and @bjohas - a translator is now available for Perlego. Your Zotero Connector should have already auto-updated to include it, but just in case it hasn't, you can also update manually by clicking "Update Translators" in the "Advanced" pane of the Zotero Connector preferences.

    Hope that helps, and let us know if you encounter any issues with it!
  • bjohas
    That's amazing, thank you! Apologies for slow reply - works nicely, many thanks @brendanoconnell!
  • brendanoconnell
    @bjohas You're very welcome!
  • judymarie
    Hi @brendanoconnell - I am fairly new to Zotero having moved over from Mendeley recently. I have read and highlighted a number of sources on Perlego and I want to know how and if I can import the citation info into zotero automatically and also my highlights? I have installed the Zotero connector on chrome, but I don't think it works. Given your conversation above, please can you explain a bit more about this? Many thanks.
  • bjohas
    Hi @judymarie. Welcome :)

    The importer/browser plugin only imports the publication metadata. For example, if you visit this link https://www.perlego.com/book/686476/, you can tap the little book in your browser tool bar to import the bibliographic information for that item (authors, title, etc) into Zotero.

    However, the importer doesn't allow you to transfer the highlights. None of the Zotero importers do.

    To get highlights into Zotero, you do need to have the item in Zotero, e.g., as a PDF. If the PDF has higglights already, ZotFile can extract highlights. Otherwise, if you annotate PDF in Zotero, Zotero shows those highlights, and those an be copied to notes.

    One service that lets you extract annotations is Google Books. There's a way of setting it up so that you can extract highlights into Google Docs.

    I hope that's helpful!
  • lplate
    Hi there, I keep receiving an error when I try to use the importer in Perlego: An error occurred saving with Perlego. Attempting to save using Save as Webpage instead.

    The URL is https://www.perlego.com/book/2694891/

    Would you be able to help please?

    Thanks!
  • poettli
    I can import via Firefox (Linux and macOS) and Chrome (macOS), but Safari gives an (different) error:
    An error occurred saving with Perlego. Attempting to save using COinS instead.
  • lplate
    Thanks for that - using Firefox worked for me too.
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