Firefox saving of Wall St. Journal articles problems

jongiff · June 22, 2019

I tried this morning to save two articles from the Wall St. Journal to Zotero and encountered problems. The Zotero button in Firefox showed there to be a problem: "An error occurred saving.... Attempting to use metadata."
An item was saved in my Zotero library but as a webpage rather than as a newspaper article.
One of the items I tried to save is here:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-turnabout-on-religious-freedom-11561155218?emailToken=06b0c49571c1c4d51638ad8c85f2e9eap8KhNigEPYfeaj3585tz0FLUG5smiRbymsI2sCUi6G+/SMLH9jVLJwR1dkRxCp8jOd5+WQbczTfS9Ohv4DavFA==&reflink=article_email_share

I'm operating Mac 10.14.5 (currently available update), Firefox 67.0.3 (64-bit). I've restarted Firefox and Zotero and that hasn't solved the problem.
Thanks and thanks for Zotero.
Jonathan

zuphilip · June 23, 2019

Okay, I see that too. This is an example where the JSON-LD data they provide is not valid. I try to circumvent this in the translator. Stay tuned.

zuphilip · June 29, 2019

Should work now also for such invalid JSON-LD data from WSJ.

jongiff · June 29, 2019

Hi, I've just tried saving something new from WSJ and had the same problem. I've restarted Firefox and Zotero both. Firefox was showing the icon for a newspaper article in the command bar.

The most recent attempt was:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/conservative-iconoclast-reihan-salam-takes-the-helm-11561047961?emailToken=3e6fff41d8e07ef750dd725c178a8b87FKyv6wJgizosqi+Te1yLhqwXhkWBnq5pBrTRSzXKG16B2jBD2/S/pnzPEVMCBJmgVZPc85oukiRGh3ffgqWtW5iqjd3G/Yjy/RZ/ICi6fFo=&reflink=article_email_share

Thanks.

jongiff · June 29, 2019

ps - This WSJ article from the same week's edition worked as it was supposed to:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/a-primer-for-forgetting-review-the-past-need-not-be-prologue-11561127515

dstillman · July 1, 2019

https://www.wsj.com/articles/conservative-iconoclast-reihan-salam-takes-the-helm-11561047961?emailToken=3e6fff41d8e07ef750dd725c178a8b87FKyv6wJgizosqi+Te1yLhqwXhkWBnq5pBrTRSzXKG16B2jBD2/S/pnzPEVMCBJmgVZPc85oukiRGh3ffgqWtW5iqjd3G/Yjy/RZ/ICi6fFo=&reflink=article_email_share

This is working for me.

jongiff · July 1, 2019

Hi, the link that worked for dstillman did no work for me just now -- same problem as before where the save as newspaper article fails so Zotero saves as a webpage after giving an error message. I'm using a Mac 10.14.5 and Firefox 67.0.4 (64 bit) and Zotero 5.0.69.

Any suggestions?

zuphilip · July 1, 2019

Try to update your translators manually: https://www.zotero.org/support/connector_preferences#advanced_preferences

jongiff · July 4, 2019

I updated my translators manually as suggested by zuphillip and it worked with the articles that were giving problems earlier. Thanks for the assistance.