Report ID:1076924913 Translator cannot find title of eLife paper

GrantJ
The paper I am trying to file is here:

http://elife.elifesciences.org/content/3/e02313

Zotero abandon’s the attempt with a translator error. It is using the eLife translator and the Zotero Preferences (using Safari) reports that there is a JavaScript error, "No title found for item". (FWIW, I can’t copy and paste the error message, as copying seems disallowed.)

This seem reproducible: have tried reloading the offending page; same results.
  • aurimas
    edited March 14, 2014
    Edit: Ooops, sorry, posted in the wrong thread. Looking into the eLife issue though
  • aurimas
    Make sure your Zotero extension is up to date in Safari (should be 4.0.8)

    If that doesn't help, see https://www.zotero.org/support/troubleshooting_translator_issues
  • GrantJ
    Extension is v 4.0.8 (updated a while back).

    I’ve read the troubleshooting doc (before writing here). No mention of eLife in the list of known issues (but I’ve had trouble at least once before; can’t remember what resolved that or if it got resolved).
  • adamsmith
    If steps 1-11 on that page don't help, 12 requests several bits of information, please provide those.
  • aurimas
    Dan, could you take a look at the error report in the title?
  • dstillman
    "No title specified for item"
  • aurimas
    Yes, but... anything about the URL (proxy?), Safari version, anything?

    GrantJ, can you submit a Debug ID (from Safari) for that import, starting with loading the page through the error you see in the bottom right? https://www.zotero.org/support/debug_output
  • dstillman
    Connector Report IDs don't include URLs.

    Last Safari 5 version for 10.6.

    Locale is en-au, for what that's worth.
  • GrantJ
    "GrantJ, can you submit a Debug ID"

    - The report ID from the title of my opening post has what you are asking for - ?

    "Report ID:1076924913 …"

    "12 requests several bits of information, please provide those."

    Sorry I missed the third of four bullet points there (the rest was given earlier):

    - Zotero Standalone 4.0.17
    - Mac OS 10.6.8
    - Safari 5.1.10

    If you’ve other things you want best you suggest them: ‘etc.’ (as in the doc’s) is kind-of open-ended!
  • adamsmith
    follow the link in aurimas's post for instructions on submitting a Debug ID - it's not the same as an error report ID
  • GrantJ
    Debug ID: D1384641827

    [off-topic] Dan - good catch on the locale. FWIW: AFAIK there is no en-nz locale, which I’d use if they provided it! It’s a bit like asking Canadians to use an USA locale.
  • dstillman
    (3)(+0006853): Translators: Looking for translators for http://elife.elifesciences.org/content/3/e02313

    (4)(+0000071): Translate: Binding sandbox to http://elife.elifesciences.org/content/3/e02313

    (4)(+0000000): Translate: Parsing code for eLife

    (3)(+0000006): Translate: All translator detect calls and RPC calls complete

    (5)(+0000000): Translate: Running handler 0 for translators

    (4)(+0004463): Translate: Parsing code for eLife

    (3)(+0000000): Translate: Beginning translation with eLife

    (3)(+0000000): Translate: Creating translate instance of type web in sandbox

    (3)(+0000005): HTTP POST {} to http://127.0.0.1:23119/connector/getSelectedCollection

    (4)(+0000323): Translate: Binding sandbox to http://elife.elifesciences.org/content/3/e02313

    (4)(+0000000): Translate: Parsing code for Embedded Metadata

    (3)(+0000000): Translate: Embedded Metadata: found 0 meta tags.

    (3)(+0000000): Translate:


    (3)(+0000000): Translate: Creating translate instance of type import in sandbox

    (3)(+0000008): Connector: Method getSelectedCollection succeeded

    (4)(+0000002): Translate: Binding sandbox to http://elife.elifesciences.org/content/3/e02313

    (4)(+0000000): Translate: Parsing code for RDF

    (3)(+0000001): Translate: Initializing RDF data store

    (3)(+0000006): Translate: Title was not found in meta tags. Using document title as title

    (3)(+0000000): Translate: Looking for authors in byline, vcard

    (3)(+0000000): Translate: Found 0 elements with 'byline' class

    (3)(+0000001): Translate: Found 0 elements with 'vcard' class

    (3)(+0000000): Translate: No byline found.

    (5)(+0000001): Translate: Running handler 0 for itemDone

    (2)(+0000002): Translate: Translation using eLife failed:
    string => Error: No title specified for item
    url => http://elife.elifesciences.org/content/3/e02313
    downloadAssociatedFiles => true
    automaticSnapshots => true

    (5)(+0000003): Translate: Running handler 0 for done

    (3)(+0000001): Translate: WARNING: Zotero.done() called after translator completion with error
  • adamsmith
    @aurimas - how about testing for citation_title before returning on detectWeb - that may very well fix this. At a minimum it would prevent detect from firing for a page it can't import.
  • aurimas
    I mean, we can put in workarounds, but I'm not entirely sure what I'm working around here. That same page on my end has all the necessary metadata. Can you reproduce this?
  • adamsmith
    no I can't - works for me. I'm thinking it might be picking up an overlayed iframe or adpage or something else we're not seeing. Not the first time that has happened.
  • aurimas
    I'm thinking it might be picking up an overlayed iframe or adpage or something else we're not seeing.
    All of that would be showing up in the debug log. I'm only seeing a single detectWeb call (unless Dan omitted others, which I doubt he would).

    Another clue that something is getting really messed up is "Title was not found in meta tags. Using document title as title", yet there is still no title. So I'm thinking that there's something wrong with passing the document object to the EM translator from eLife. I'll have to investigate later, but it seems like this is very specific to his setup, since it's not reproducible on Windows with Safari 5.
  • aurimas
    @GrantJ, do you have a 32 bit or 64 bit processor? It probably doesn't matter, but I will try to reproduce this in a virtual machine and I might as well work under the same conditions.
  • balakmartin
    edited March 9, 2016
    Hello there,

    I get the same error message when trying to save any document from proquest (switched to czech language) to my zotero library. Any ideas how to fix this? I´m using Chrome Extension + updated version of standalone.

    Debug ID: D1042472706
  • adamsmith
    please start a new thread, run through https://www.zotero.org/support/troubleshooting_translator_issues and provide all information requested under step 11.
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