Request: Save snapshots only if no other attachment

bwiernik

188BET靠谱吗I have kept the Save Snapshots setting turned off as long as I've used Zotero because I never want to save a snapshot of things like scholarly journal article webpages (I just want the PDF).Would it be possible to have a setting where snapshots are not saved if there is another attachment file that exists (ideally, whether or not it's available -- I still don't want to save the publisher webpage even if I don't have access to the PDF at save time), but to save one otherwise (eg, blog posts, newspaper articles, etc)?

dstillman

I still think the solution there is to just remove snapshot saving from the vast majority of translators — essentially all that support PDFs.Originally I think part of the idea was that the snapshot could give you searchable content in the absence of a PDF, but I don't think that's a compelling enough reason, and given the increased availability of PDFs even in the absence of institutional subscriptions these days, I think we should only save snapshots for the kinds of resources you mention.

If there's agreement on this, I can open a tracking ticket for this, and people can identify translators that need to be updated (or, I guess, we can just grep for translators that save both).

bwiernik

I think that makes sense.Especially with the Unpaywall integration and other sources of PDFs.

adamsmith

It's a bit tricky because of html full text.The vast majority of users will want the PDF, but html is of course much better for accessibility, so there's likely a small but important group that does want the html when looking at full text.
I do agree with the general sentiment and I think snapshots of abstract pages are indeed useless

migugg

I think it is a very good idea to only save snapshots if there is no pdf.Obviously the best solution would be if there were an option to select it (as per adamsmith' point), but I assume this is tricky as this is done in the translators.

bwiernik

Would it be possible for there to be a setting to save the HTML page in addition to the PDF that could be enabled for accessibility needs but defaults to off?

adamsmith

A preference that can be addressed in translator code (turned to no snapshot by default) sounds good to me