Downloading from Trove

LizDownes · August 8, 2019

I used to be able to click on the zotero tab and download articles from the TROVE database and they were formated as newspaper articles. After not doing any searching and downloading for a long time it now doesn't seem to be set up the same. The article downloads as a 'webpage without snapshot'. It is possible my configuration has changed as I am now using Chrome, I changed from Firefox some time ago.
Could someone point me in the right direction to fix my set up or help me.
Thanks.

dstillman · August 8, 2019

Can you provide an example URL?

Ruehtree · December 12, 2019

I also am having trouble with TROVE newspaper articles. It used to save the citation, a note and a PDF of the article now it saves it as Embedded Metadata. Then every now and again it will save as it should. See link to an article. https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/73543424

petermk · December 19, 2019

I am also frustrated by this change. Perhaps this description might allow somebody to diagnose the reason and suggest a fix:

Using Firefox 71.0 with the Zotero connector 5.0.60 I get this error in the browser:

"An error occurred saving with Trove. Attempting to save using Embedded Metadata instead."

This is followed by a series of errors in Zotero, like this:

"The page at https://trove.nla.gov.au says:

main / UI Layout Initialization Warning
The layout-container "main layout / DIV#ui-layout-main" has no height.
Therefore the layout is 0-height and hence 'invisible'!"

Fomgen · January 5, 2020

I have just updated to Zotero 5.0.80. I am not sure of the previous version I was using. Trove was working perfectly last evening and now after the update I am experiencing the exact same problem as others describe...saves as a web page and gives multiple error messages, and the Save to Zotero icon in Google Chrome is grey. I also can't see any means of reverting back to a previous version so that I can continue to use what was an amazing genealogy research tool.

dstillman · January 5, 2020

This would just be a change in the site, not a change in Zotero. The Trove web app Zotero tries to download from appears to have been shut down, and old versions of Zotero fail in the same way. Someone will need to update Zotero's Trove translator. Issue created.

(The error popups in Zotero are unfortunate and should be fixed but are also irrelevant. The problem is that the Trove translator is failing and the page is being saved as a webpage with a snapshot.)

dstillman · January 5, 2020

(Also, the save icon shouldn't be "gray" in the normal sense of the gray page icon. It should be a newspaper icon, since the Trove translator is correctly detecting the page but the save itself is failing.)

zuphilip · January 6, 2020

Okay, the Trove translator should now work again, also I am not sure whether the PDF generation is running stable now. This is a special service one developer from Trove build some years ago.

Your Zotero Connector should auto-update within 24 hours, or you can update manually by clicking Update Translators in the Advanced pane of the Zotero Connector preferences.

petermk · August 15, 2020

wragge · September 15, 2020

I've submitted a pull request that I think fixes this problem -- the scraper was broken on articles with tags: https://github.com/zotero/translators/pull/2246

Note that the saving of everything other than newspaper articles from Trove is completely borked following the recent site redesign. I'm not not sure how fixable it is at this point.

petermk · September 17, 2020

Thank you, wragge, for fixing the problem. I'm delighted!