Importing multiple ISBNs, some of which may be invalid
I would like to import multiple ISBNs, some of which may be invalid.
The wand tool in the Zotero tool opens a dialog box for entering ISBNs and DOIs.
Entering a single invalid ISBN results in an error message.
Entering multiple ISBN some of which are invalid gives a silent failure; how does one get notified that some ISBNs failed? (Requesting this warning please).
What are other ways of entering multiple ISBNs? Is there a command line argument that takes a file, or website?
The wand tool in the Zotero tool opens a dialog box for entering ISBNs and DOIs.
Entering a single invalid ISBN results in an error message.
Entering multiple ISBN some of which are invalid gives a silent failure; how does one get notified that some ISBNs failed? (Requesting this warning please).
What are other ways of entering multiple ISBNs? Is there a command line argument that takes a file, or website?
I don't have a great solution for the ISBNs but one way to check would be to re-export the imported ISBNs as .csv and compare the ISBN column to your imported ones (though unfortunately, for ISBNs imported via Worldcat, results will have multiple ISBNs)
Could we add a feature request to pop a dialog with ISBN entries for which Zotero could not produce an entry for (either invalid ISBN checkdigit or no metadata).
Or at least print something to an error console or error file?
FWIW, if you run debug output while importing, copying the full output to a text editor and searching for "No search results found for ISBN" will get you all ISBNs that weren't successfully imported.
I don't think we can write those into regular error reports (which have the advantage of being less noisy and not having to be turned on).