ScienceDirect translator fails to download PDFs
For a long time now it has been the case that the ScienceDirect translator doesn't download PDFs. Is there a technical reason for this?
The PDF url is messy and encodes a user id and md5 hash and loads of other stuff, but when I go to it directly it does immediately download the PDF, so it seems nothing should stand in the way of simply grabbing it.
This holds for all ScienceDirect articles as far as I know. Here's an example: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/B6VB6-3SX80VJ-3/2/58ce016314a6fe89018ffea4239a4ab0
The PDF url is messy and encodes a user id and md5 hash and loads of other stuff, but when I go to it directly it does immediately download the PDF, so it seems nothing should stand in the way of simply grabbing it.
This holds for all ScienceDirect articles as far as I know. Here's an example: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/B6VB6-3SX80VJ-3/2/58ce016314a6fe89018ffea4239a4ab0
It will hopefully get pushed to users soon. Otherwise, you can download it and put it in the translators directory of your Zotero data directory and the translator will start working.
Thanks to ajlyon for the fix.