Automatic "Attach Snapshot of Current Page"

brucebest · September 29, 2010

I'm looking at modifying a translator, and want it to automatically attach a snapshot of the html page. The translator is for the Canadian Legal Information Institute, canlii.org. Right now it will automatically download the linked PDF file using the following:


 var pdfRe = /^(.+)\.html$/;
 var pdfMatch = pdfRe.exec(doc.location.href);
 if (pdfMatch) {
 var pdfUrl = pdfMatch[1]+".pdf";
 newItem.attachments = [{url:pdfUrl, title:"PDF version", mimeType:"application/pdf"}];

but it would be much more useful (for my purposes, in any case) to get a snapshot of the HTML page instead of the PDF.
I looked through the various documentation on translators, but couldn't figure out how to do this. Any suggestions on what would do this?

Thanks

dstillman · September 29, 2010

1) It's generally better to post questions like this to zotero-dev.

2) Rather than looking through documentation, just look at existing translators. In this case, searching for "snapshot" would yield many examples. See, e.g., the NYT translator.

brucebest · September 30, 2010

Thanks, will do that (though a quick glance at the NYTimes.com.js translator mostly reminds me that I know almost nothing about javascript and what does what)