Goodreads translator no longer detects books

avh.on1 · December 11, 2024

On Goodreads, Zotero no longer detects book metadata, and falls back to the web page translator.

It looks like the Goodreads translator relies on a meta:isbn tag, which Goodreads no longer puts in the page.

https://github.com/zotero/translators/blob/master/Goodreads.js

AbeJellinek · December 11, 2024

Thanks, fixed. Your Zotero Connector should auto-update within a few minutes, or you can update manually by clicking Update Translators in the Advanced pane of the Zotero Connector preferences.

Calorion · 2025-11-03T23:49:03+00:00

I’m still having this error, though I don’t know why. Trying to import https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/210613871-the-collected-poems-of-j-r-r-tolkien consistently results in "An error occurred saving with Goodreads. Attempting to save using Embedded Metadata instead.”

macOS 12.7.6
Safari 17.6
Zotero Connector 5.0.184