Wiley Online

FrancoP
Hello,

I'm having trouble scraping pdfs off Wiley Online.

Example pdf:

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/mrm.21729/pdf

When I use Zotero to import to Standalone (v3.0.3), I only get the reference and the citation.

I'm using Chrome as my browser. Thanks!
  • adamsmith
    confirmed on FF. I can have a look in due time - in general, getting pdfs for sites that embed them in a website like Wiley does is more fragile/less reliable.
  • aurimas
    This one was a bit tougher than usual, but I don't think it's too fragile. It will just take longer to fetch citations due to an additional HTTP request.

    I pushed the fix to github, but it will take a bit until it propagates to the end-user.

    Give it a few days.

    Thanks for reporting!
  • FrancoP
    No, it's fine! Thank you for providing a great tool. It's really superb, and without people like you out there supporting it, it wouldn't be half as good as it is!
  • fingersandtoes
    Just wanted to say that I'm having this problem too - I get the citation but not the pdf.
  • adamsmith
    Sample URL? Is this using standalone (which browser?) or Firefox?
  • fingersandtoes
    http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1467-923X.2010.02096.x/abstract

    Using standalone and Chrome. I tried with Firefox too and same thing, except I was at least able to manually download the pdf in FF.
  • adamsmith
    works for me. If you hover with your mouse over the item in the URL bar, what does it say?
    Also, is that the URL as you see it, or are you accessing the site through a proxy (your URL would look something like
    http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com.ezproxy.myuniversity.edu/doi/10.1111/j.1467-923X.2010.02096.x/abstract)
  • FrancoP
    Hello.

    I think wiley have changed their format again. I can't scrape pdf's from the abstract page, just the citation

    i.e. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/mrm.21013/abstract

    And clicking through to the pdf itself doesn't have the Zotero import option.

    i.e. http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/store/10.1002/mrm.21013/asset/21013_ftp.pdf?v=1&t=h5lah3pm&s=1d52f1b6f0d5e8736341a04d7d2522bdb88d77ac

    I'm still using Chrome. Thanks!
  • Simon
    Unfortunately, it looks like Wiley has decided to serve the PDF to different browsers in different ways. As a result, I'm not sure if there's a way to save them from the connector via Zotero Standalone. I'll look at this more closely later today.
  • FrancoP
    Hello,

    Is there anything I can do myself to fix this? I would be very keen to get the pdf scraping up and running, and am happy to investigate with a little guidance!

    Fran
  • aurimas
    Is it still not working with any of the links posted above?

    I seem to be able to import citations and PDFs in both Firefox and Zotero Standalone + Chrome. Could you generate a Debug ID for an attempt to save an item where a PDF does not get downloaded? Also provide us the URL you are seeing in the address bar for that item. Verify that you can download the PDF manually. If you have Firefox, try saving the item in Firefox and see if PDFs download.
  • FrancoP
    Hellp, thanks for your help!

    Again using Chrome on my MacBook, I tried to save the reference and pdf using Zotero from the following link:

    http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/mrm.24138/abstract

    The citation was imported, but the PDF wasn't saved. Here is the Debug ID: D1320035644.

    Clicking through to the PDF takes me through to the following page:

    http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/store/10.1002/mrm.24138/asset/24138_ftp.pdf?v=1&t=h913c4f2&s=73f8129f51d29e58ff660bd5ca717379f041e4d8

    From here I can save the pdf successfully. However, there is no icon in the taskbar for importing into Zotero.

    Thanks again!
  • theplc
    I am having the same issue, also using Chrome + standalone.

    Firefox manages to scrape the PDFs fine (also using standalone or the FF integrated), but Chrome cannot do it.
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