Zotero Connector - Twitter/X translator seems broken

madison437
I get the message:
"An error occurred saving with Twitter. Attempting to save using Embedded Metadata instead."

Indeed some of the fields are filled out, but the Title is generic, e.g. "The Wall Street Journal on X". No Author Field filled in.

I've tried both the "Update" and "Reset" buttons in the Translator Extension Advanced Prefs, to no avail.

Perhaps of interest:
I can correctly save a Twitter item using my iPhone Zotero App to the Zotero online storage, unlike the desktop app.

Any help appreciated.

Browsers tried: Chrome, Brave
macOS 13.4.1
Zotero 6.0.26

  • AbeJellinek
    On it, thanks.
  • AbeJellinek
    Fixed. 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.
  • madison437
    Thank you! I did in fact update the connector translators and it no longer throws up the error.

    However, the Twitter translator used to designate the Title field as the actual text of the Tweet. This was very useful, as now it is just calls each item "X", and when displaying records in Zotero, one just sees a series of "X" entires, with the text of the tweet nowhere to be found.

    Hopefully this makes sense, and a big thank you again.

  • AbeJellinek
    Sorry, try updating again. That was a mistake in my first patch that should be fixed now.
  • madison437
    It works!

    No reason to apologize, it's rather quite impressive how quickly it was fixed.

    Thanks again.
  • Mela
    Works here, too, after I forced the translator update. Thanks for the fix.

    Mela
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