African Journals Online AJOL bulk saving problem

meretechristianson
I'm trying to use the Zotero connector to bulk save article info from African Journals Online (AJOL) since it doesn't have its own export option. (Here is a link: https://www.ajol.info/index.php/ajol/search/search?query="skin+cancer"+OR+melanoma). The results page has 50 articles on it, but the connector is only grabbing the data for 33 of them. I've tried this in both Firefox and Chrome. Another person tried this and was able to save 36 of the articles from the exact same search results page. I've reset the translators in Zotero and unfortunately that did not change the outcome. The popup when I try to save says "Saving to (a specific collection I made in Zotero)"

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  • AbeJellinek Zotero Team
    Thanks, we were missing support for the search results layout that AJOL uses (so saving from individual item pages worked, but searches didn't). Fixed now. Your Zotero Connector should auto-update within a few minutes, or you can update translators manually from the Advanced pane of the Zotero settings.
    since it doesn't have its own export option
    Just a note on this - you should always try the Connector's Save to Zotero button first before using sites' own RIS/BibTeX/etc. export options! The Connector's translator scripts usually use the site's export format as a base, but they apply various site-specific fixes and augmentations that you'll miss out on otherwise.
  • meretechristianson
    Many thanks! It works!
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