Request: Newspapers.com plug-in or compatibility.
Hi all. More and more people are beginning to use Newspapers.com for research on topics, rather than it's original purpose of genealogy. It has never worked well with Zotero but they have recently reformatted their site. Though I know little about coding, I do know that it most likely would be rather easy to fix now because most of the necessary information is in the second bar from the top.
Is anyone interested in creating a fix for this? I would be SO VERY grateful. You have no idea. I use that site nearly every single day for research and would love it if someone could take a stab at it.
Is anyone interested in creating a fix for this? I would be SO VERY grateful. You have no idea. I use that site nearly every single day for research and would love it if someone could take a stab at it.
If something isn't working, we'd need an example URL and a description of the problem.
6 Sep 1939, 1 - Evening Standard at Newspapers.com
Which isn't a title. The Newspaper name is Evening Standard. The date is 6 Sep 1939 and it is page 1 (hence the date comma 1) of the newspaper. The newspaper archive should be Newspapers.com and the URL would still be where the URL should go.
The actual title and author would be nearly impossible to extract which is understandable since it would need to be highlighted and have OCR to read the highlighted portion.
This is a paid subscription site, but the URL for this example is: https://www.newspapers.com/image/720806577
Just fixing those alone would save me a BUNCH of time.
Thanks so much for helping!
But this is by design. The site prefers that people save from clippings, not images. Details here.
There's no good way to save an entire page of a paper, unfortunately. I could have it create an item with a dummy article title but the correct page/date, but I think that would just be more confusing.