Most of times zotero can't auto-dowload pdf from sciencedirect

superhxl · November 24, 2015

Zotero standard 4.028.7 on win7, while grab from science, pdf will not be auto downloaded. For example,
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S096669231000133X
Occasionaly, it works.

superhxl · November 24, 2015

This is works,
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0301421510003897

adamsmith · November 24, 2015

By "standard" you mean the Firefox add-on? And those are the URLs exactly as you see them? And you do have access to the PDF, I assume?
When you open the PDFs in your browsers, what are the respective URLs you're seeing for those?

superhxl · November 24, 2015

No, I use zotero standard, and with zotero connector(4.0.26) in chrome.

I surely have the access, I can dowload by myself. And pdf link address is:

http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S096669231000133X/pdfft?md5=f2f30e46691dbfa0af357d4ebeecf2fc&pid=1-s2.0-S096669231000133X-main.pdf

geolrud · December 1, 2015

Same here, manual download works OK, but not automatically, it seems the attachment is not detected as there is no icon shown in the popup. (The red cross icon would else show me there is no full text, or no access to full text)

Firefox portable 42.0 Zotero add on 4.028.7 on win7.

not working: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0264817211001528

adamsmith · December 1, 2015

@geolrud -- but the translator shows as "Save to Zotero (ScienceDirect)" when hovering over the Save to Zotero icon?

andrejturk · December 2, 2015

I've got the same problem and it only appeared a few days ago - prior to that, the Zotero plugin for Firefox would always fetch the pdf on SD. It still works on other websites such as Maney Online. No errors are displayed when I try fetching pdfs from SD and @adamsmith, the 'Save to Zotero' icon looks normal. Maybe SD updated their website recently? In any case I'll be monitoring the thread, so if you need examples or info I'll be here. I also filed an error report if that's any help: 1600317283.

adamsmith · December 3, 2015

I can't currently replicate this, but I don't have access to gated ScienceDirect, only sample and open access ones and they work.

Could one or two of you do the following

1. Right click on the "Download PDF" icon at the top left and select Inspect element.

2 In the panel that open, a little forther up right-click on the line that starts with <div id="articleToolbar"... select "copy innerHTML" (Firefox) or copy (Chrome) and paste what you get to gist.github.com, create a private gist and provide the link to it here.

3 Together with that provide both the link to the article and the link that you see in the browser when looking at the PDF.

chris.cline · December 6, 2015

I've been having the same problem for the last couple weeks, running Zotero Standalone with Chrome. It appears to only happen on ScienceDirect where the "Download PDF" link now has a popup choice between "Article" and "Article + other articles in this issue", instead of going directly to a PDF download like it used to.

The requested Inspect Element results: https://gist.github.com/anonymous/972f3598720e3a515c7b

For article http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S096669231000133X
PDF link: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S096669231000133X/pdfft?md5=f2f30e46691dbfa0af357d4ebeecf2fc&pid=1-s2.0-S096669231000133X-main.pdf

adamsmith · December 6, 2015

that's perfect. I should have an updated version to test shortly (no need for any more inspect element/link info). Please check back here in 1-2 hours, I'll want a couple of people to confirm this is working before releasing it, so I'll just put it up to download as a test.

adamsmith · December 6, 2015

The test translator is here:
https://gist.githubusercontent.com/adam3smith/d49f0e28c40a16a4ad1b/raw/94378c44ab9dc28c440157ffc3ec1446f9d41260/ScienceDirect.js

Download it and place it in the "translators" folder in the Zotero data directory, replacing the existing file of the same name.

Restart both Standalone and Chrome and try again. Please report back either way.

No longer relevant. This issue is resovled in Zotero

viktor123 · December 7, 2015

Is the test translator for Chrome only?
I tried adamsmith's new translator but Zotero still didn't fetch the PDF. The Sciencedirect translator shows up when opening a Sciencedirect page. I could download the PDF manually. I use Zotero for Firefox 4.0.28.7 and Zotero Standalone 4.0.28.

Claireprl · December 7, 2015

I've got the same problem with Zotero Standalone 4.0.28.7 and Firefox 42.0

Impossible to save any references from Science Direct since few days...

And in my Zotero data directory, there isn't the translator proposed by Adamsmtih...

Thank you for your help!

adamsmith · December 7, 2015

the test should work with any Zotero version. I'm going to wait for a couple of more tests, then revisit.

chris.cline · December 7, 2015

Sorry for the delay in testing. This is not working for me either; there is no change in behaviour after replacing the Translator and restarting both Chrome and Zotero. The translator still doesn't seem to detect that it should try downloading a PDF at all (i.e. no PDF listed, no red X).

adamsmith · December 7, 2015

OK, let's give this one more try. Same instructions, new link:
https://gist.githubusercontent.com/adam3smith/d49f0e28c40a16a4ad1b/raw/70733f83c988ddbbbc4a43183c7491cdbfc85a4c/ScienceDirect.js

No longer relevant. This issue is resovled in Zotero

chris.cline · December 7, 2015

Still not working, though I'm not convinced that Zotero is updating the Translator it is using.

I won't claim to know everything that's going on in the code, but for example, if I edit a snippet of the translator to always feed in a dummy link as an expected PDF attachment, it still does not appear to try anything with this URL when grabbing the article.

var pdfLink = getPDFLink(doc);
//if(pdfLink)
item.attachments.push({
title: 'ScienceDirect Full Text PDF',
url: 'http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S096669231000133X/pdfft?md5=f2f30e46691dbfa0af357d4ebeecf2fc&pid=1-s2.0-S096669231000133X-main.pdf',
mimeType: 'application/pdf'
});

Is there a way to be more certain that it is correctly using the edited Translator?

chris.cline · December 7, 2015

I think my problem was because I had left old translator in same directory, just with the file renamed. The revised translator now works for me after deleting the old one.

adamsmith · December 7, 2015

yes, if they're both there, Zotero picks one at random... So just to confirm -- you're getting the PDF now, yes?

viktor123 · December 7, 2015

The new translator version gets the PDF. Thanks!

adamsmith · December 7, 2015

OK, I'll push these out via regular release channels tonight, so unless you're adventurous or in a big hurry, no one else has to test these.

chris.cline · December 7, 2015

Yes, it is indeed grabbing the PDF correctly. Thanks for being so responsive in figuring out a fix!

adamsmith · December 8, 2015

OK, this is now live. Click on "Update Now" in the general tab of the Zotero preferences to update. Otherwise, Zotero translators update every 24hs.

Special thanks to Chris for spotting where exactly this was breaking & helping to troubleshoot.

ssauerw · January 15, 2016

Hi:

I experience the pdf save issue with sciencedirect while in on my uni's network.

Site: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S092911991500053X
Report ID: 1315821484
Windows 10 x64
Zotero 4.0.28.7 Standalone
Chrome Connector

Any ideas how I could solve this?

Thanks!

adamsmith · January 15, 2016

what are the PDF options you're getting for these?

See my post from Dec3 -- I'd want all the info I requested there.

ssauerw · January 15, 2016

PDF options are:
Article
Article + other articles in issue

https://gist.github.com/anonymous/6e9209ab821b31b3ceeb
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S092911991500053X
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S092911991500053X/pdfft?md5=f8be0aaffce0a08cc097515519b2fd8c&pid=1-s2.0-S092911991500053X-main.pdf

Thanks!

adamsmith · January 15, 2016

I'll take a look, thanks!

praveens1 · July 28, 2017

Hi:

I experience the pdf save issue with sciencedirect .

Site: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0959652616001748?_rdoc=1&_fmt=high&_origin=gateway&_docanchor=&md5=b8429449ccfc9c30159a5f9aeaa92ffb

Windows 10 x64
Zotero 5.07 Standalone
Chrome Connector and Firefox connector

Any ideas how I could solve this?

Thanks!

dstillman · July 28, 2017

https://forums.zotero.org/discussion/comment/280645/#Comment_280645