Zotero not scraping Proquest properly

frednwright

On Proquest and other sites, Zotero is not scraping the bibliographic data properly. This has just started happening. It classifies all titles on Proquest as "Web Page." Here are some representative errors from the console. I have tried uninstalling and reinstalling the connector.

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dstillman

Can you provide an example URL where you're seeing this?

frednwright

Sorry for the late reply. Here is a representative link to ProQuest:

https://www.proquest.com/docview/2248552422/12335014?parentSessionId=zoAJxQkdJArShpajyaELc1t71zRp2wkllU4Qf+9idmg=&pq-origsite=primo&accountid=55036

Right now I am working around it by exporting the citation in Proquest and then importing it into Zotero. This was not necessary previously.

frednwright

Still not working...

adamsmith

Sorry for the delay. I'm able to replicate this, but it's not a simple issue. The EEBO display on Proquest is different in some significant ways from other Proquest pages so Zotero doesn't work properly. We'll fix, but might take a bit.

adamsmith

Ticket here: https://github.com/zotero/translators/issues/2839

frednwright

Thanks very much for the reply! I'm glad you are seeing the same error. Yes, it seems that proquest changed something recently with regards to EEBO.

adamsmith

@frednwright this should now be fixed. Zotero will update the translators within 24hs

frednwright

Many, many thanks to you and the folks who worked on this! Zotero is one of the best academic tools that exist and I really appreciate all the hard work that goes into maintaining it!

radhist

Hi - this seems to be a problem again now. From EEBO, a link such as this one https://www.proquest.com/eebo/docview/2240865505/fulltextPDF/AD88D813CA3344ABPQ/32?accountid=11862&sourcetype=Books
saves as webpage although this is the pdf view. On 'details' view it tries to save as pdf but doesn't happen. On list view it leads to an error message.
Thanks!