User talk:DrThneed/Web2Cit worklist

Newshub XPath[edit]

This XPath seems to work for the publication date on Newshub:

/html/body/div[2]/article/section/div/div/div[1]/div[1]/div/ul/li[1]/div

You can test it in the JavaScript console in your browser by submitting the query like this:

$x("/html/body/div[2]/article/section/div/div/div[1]/div[1]/div/ul/li[1]/div/text()")

However Newshub show the date for recent articles as “5 minutes ago”, there is a better and simpler path in the article metadata at:

/html/body/div[2]/article/meta[1]

The query for this in the console is:

$x("/html/body/div[2]/article/meta[1]/@content")

Probably better to search for the datePublished metadata tag in case they change the web page structure, and this should work.

$x("//meta[@itemprop='datePublished']/@content")[0].value

That should return the date and time as a string in datetime format, and I'm not sure how that is handled by Web2Cit., but hopefully this will help you with the XPath.

--Canley (talk) 03:34, 24 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks @Canley. Unfortunately for some reason all three of those break the template, causing the tool to use a fallback template (which is a bit pointless really). So frustrating! Reassuringly for me both your first and second suggestions were things I had already tried (or v similar). There is a tip on the template page about "Any valid XPath v1.0 expression" working, but I don't know enough about XPath to know about versions, or whether there is some other reason this is failing! DrThneed (talk) 08:02, 24 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Hmm, I'll have a look at the patterns and try and work it out. --Canley (talk) 11:53, 25 August 2023 (UTC)[reply]

DNZB[edit]

Not sure what the citation tool is trying to do, but does it help that we have a perfectly fine citation template for DNZB. Would it help to make the bot realise that it's a DNZB citation and then direct it to use the template? Schwede 66 01:11, 23 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Kia ora Giantflightlessbirds, here's some background work to the citation tool. Schwede 66 07:46, 23 April 2024 (UTC)[reply]