Safari and saving websites

wkdewey · March 16, 2016

After I installed the Safari connector, I now see the Zotero icon but it seems to be gray for most sites (with the exception of Worldcat). When I was using the Firefox extension, I was able to save any sites I wanted. But since then I've deleted Firefox from my Mac. Is the Safari extension only supposed to be able to work with certain sites? The website I specifically want to save (actually I just need the citation, not a copy of the website) is http://tbrc.org/#!rid=P1154 which doesn't have a special link to Zotero like Worldcat.

adamsmith · March 16, 2016

right-click (ctrl+click) anywhere in the page you want to save and select "Save as Zotero Snapshot" (exactly language might not be right).

scheydec · October 16, 2016

Control-Click and Right-Click don't help. I've found you have to have Firefox running (and open a new Safari window after you start Firefox) for the Z in Safari to not be greyed out. Kind of misses the point of having a Safari connector.

adamsmith · October 16, 2016

no, that's definitely not the case. You do have to have Zotero Standalone running, but if that's the case, running (or even having instsalled) Firefox should definitely not have any effect at all. If it does for you, we'd need more precise steps to reproduce.

scheydec · October 16, 2016

I have Zotero Standalone running (and logged in), but some pages have the Z greyed out (like google.com and http://www.coca-cola.com/global/glp.html) while other pages don't have the Z greyed out and do allow me to Save to Zotero (like http://www.philly.com/philly/sports/eagles/Eagles-flaws-show-in-loss-to-Washington.html)

If I'm writing a paper about web pages or search engines, that's a problem.

Thanks!

adamsmith · October 16, 2016

OK, but if you're on http://www.coca-cola.com/global/glp.html are you saying that right-click --> Save as Zotero Snapshot doesn't work? Note that you're right-clicking somewhere in the webpage you're trying to save, not on the Zotero Z in Safari.

dstillman · October 16, 2016

See https://www.zotero.org/support/getting_stuff_into_your_library#saving_webpages

Note that Zotero for Firefox and Chrome allow you to click the main save button for any webpage and Zotero will do the best it can, but that functionality hasn't made its way to Safari yet, so in Safari there's still a difference between pages that Zotero has translators for and pages it doesn't.

scheydec · October 16, 2016

Sorry - you're correct! The right-click works, but why is the Z still greyed out?

adamsmith · October 16, 2016

because Zotero makes a distinction (currently at least -- there are discussion about softening that) between pages where it is able to detect and import actual metadata, and pages where all it does it grab the title, URL, access date, and a snapshot. For the latter, the Z is greyed out. That's the same on Firefox: the equivalent icon is greyed out on the coca cola page.