Sciendirect Book Downloading

ihatedurians · August 9, 2011

Is it possible to download all the pdf chapters of a sciendirect page that is for a book? http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/book/9780123694683

MichelleB · December 7, 2011

My recent experience with this from an institutional login (IP address) to ScienceDirect is 'no'. I get a "translator issue" error if I try to click on the folder icon in the browser address bar (where you would normally be able to select individual, or all, items to download). I have had to resort to downloading individual chapters.

adamsmith · December 7, 2011

confirmed - it throws the "guest mode" error (even though it shouldn't - I'm logged in via proxy). Ajlyon - can you take this one?

ajlyon · December 7, 2011

I'll look into it.

ajlyon · December 7, 2011

Please go to http://github.com/ajlyon/translators/raw/master/ScienceDirect.js and save the file to the translators directory of your Zotero data directory (http://www.zotero.org/support/zotero_data).

For this page in particular, save http://github.com/ajlyon/translators/raw/master/RIS.js to the same place.

It should start working again. If this works for you, please post here so that I can submit this change to be pushed to all users.

I just removed the whole mess of guest mode code; I don't think it's actually necessary.

adamsmith · December 8, 2011

works for me, cool.

ajlyon · December 8, 2011

I'll push this, since ScienceDirect wasn't working particularly well to begin with and it's unlikely to get any worse with this change. Please report any and all errors encountered in the thread so we can continue to improve the translator, but it does seem to work nicely on what I've thrown at it.