Google Scholar: PDF link fails to save in Firefox

dstillman · August 6, 2024

This discussion was created from comments split from: Failed to save citations by clicking "Cite->EndNote" on Google Scholar but download .enw files.

EnricoFucci · August 6, 2024

Hi,
I use this feature quite often when "save to Zotero" from a web page does not download the correct metadata. Especially if google scholar links you directly to a hosted pdf.

See this example for instance:

https://s3.amazonaws.com/zotero.org/images/forums/u2278354/l7ljxpi4rli3luzcjgyo.png

dstillman · August 6, 2024

@EnricoFucci: I'm not sure what you mean by that. Google Scholar having a PDF link shouldn't matter — the Save to Zotero button should still work, and it should even download the available PDF. If that's not working, that's just a bug. The whole point of the Connector is that it knows how to save metadata from sites without your having to find the RIS/BibTeX/EndNote/etc. link.

I do get an error for the above result in Firefox, but it's working in Chrome. We'll look into that.

EnricoFucci · August 6, 2024

Thank you for your answer @dstillman.

To clarify: in this specific case, if you click on the title, you will be directed to the pdf repository directly: https://core.ac.uk/reader/234631160

From there, clicking the "save to Zotero" button will download the pdf and some metadata, but not the correct ones (for instance, authors are missing).

In this and similar cases, I normally download the metadata through Zotero Connector (on Firefox) directly from the "Cite" option in google scholar.

dstillman · August 6, 2024

Right, but as explained above, to save from Google Scholar, as on any other site, you use the Save to Zotero button. If that's not working somewhere, you should report that in a new thread with an example URL.

EnricoFucci · August 6, 2024

@dstillman thanks for the clarification. Now I see what you were mentioning in the previous message. That Save to Zotero from google scholar does not work on Firefox for this particular item.

dstillman · August 6, 2024

Yes. We'll investigate. (I've split this off to a separate thread to avoid confusion.)

harack1b · August 6, 2024

I ran into this issue with this Google Scholar page on Firefox: https://scholar.google.ca/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0,5&q=The+significance+of+strategic+foresight+in+verification+technologies:+A+case+study+of+the+INF+treaty.+Technical+Report+LLNL-TR-738786,+Center+for+Global+Security+and+Research,+Lawrence+Livermore+National+Laboratory,+Livermore,+CA.&btnG=

I reinstalled the extension and ensured that it was updating. Logged error was:

(3)(+0000331): Translate: Error with Google Scholar scraping of row https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1502006

(3)(+0000000): Translate: The error was: Error: HTTP request to https://scholar.googleusercontent.com/scholar.bib?q=info:... [redacted since I don't know if this is sensitive] rejected with status 0

It works on Chrome (just succeeded).