Discrepancy between Docker Translators Framework and the Zotero browser extension output

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Ronen Tamari

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Nov 26, 2025, 11:36:50 AM (2 days ago) Nov 26
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Hi,

I’m trying to utilize the Zotero Translators framework to extract citation metadata from URLs programmatically. I am using the Docker version as described here: https://github.com/zotero/translation-server?tab=readme-ov-file#running-via-docker

For the URL https://osf.io/preprints/mediarxiv/ecfpj_v1, running 

```

curl -d ‘<https://osf.io/preprints/mediarxiv/ecfpj_v1’> -H 'Content-Type: text/plain' <http://127.0.0.1:1969/search>

``` 

results in `No identifiers found%` being returned.

On the other hand, running the Zotero browser extension does result in a successful metadata extraction (see below), which seems to indicate that there is some discrepancy between what is running on Docker and what is called through the extension. Any ideas for where the discrepancy could be?

Thanks,

Ronen

@article{Schneider_2021, title={The Tyranny of Openness: What Happened to Peer Production?}, url={<https://osf.io/preprints/mediarxiv/ecfpj_v1/>}, DOI={10.1080/14680777.2021.1890183}, abstractNote={This paper examines a “culture war” underway among software peer-production communities through relevant blog posts, legal documents, forum discussions, and other sources. Software licensing has been a defining strategy for peer producers, and much of the conflict at hand revolves around whether licensing should more fully incorporate ethics and economics, respectively. Feminist analysis can aid in tracing the contours of discontent through its emphasis on social processes that enable and infuse productive activity—processes that peer producers have trained themselves to ignore. The emerging critiques, and the experiments they have inspired, gesture toward fuller understandings of what “free” and “open” might mean.}, number={ecfpj_v1}, publisher={MediArXiv}, author={Schneider, Nathan}, year={2021}, month=feb }  

Abe Jellinek

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Nov 26, 2025, 11:46:43 AM (2 days ago) Nov 26
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Call /web, not /search. /search is for identifiers like DOIs and ISBNs.

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Ronen Tamari

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Nov 26, 2025, 12:04:00 PM (2 days ago) Nov 26
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Thank you, missed that! Now it works :)

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Dan Stillman

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Nov 26, 2025, 12:06:14 PM (2 days ago) Nov 26
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The current version may only get a 'webpage' item, though. We're working on a fix.
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