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Gale URLs don't produce good Citations via Citoid
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As part of the Wikipedia Library partnerships, I was accessing GALE, and the CITOID tool didn't provide proper scrapers for several of their sources, so I ended up copy and pasting one of their preformatted citations: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Coal_refuse&type=revision&diff=971725807&oldid=971481649&diffmode=visual . Would love to get proper metadata off their PURL.

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Gale has special instructions for generating citations via this access, but it looks like those instructions are outdated and don't account for their new interface. The Get Link option appears to work with Citoid - Alex, can you verify?

Yep, I was using the getlink urls like:
*https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/A171034250/GPS?u=wikipedia&sid=GPS&xid=dbbf72df
https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/A171034250/GPS?u=wikipedia&sid=GPS&xid=dbbf72df
, but they weren't generating citations on Citoid so fell back on the
preformatted citations which are three buttons over. *

Yep, I was using the getlink urls like:
*https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/A171034250/GPS?u=wikipedia&sid=GPS&xid=dbbf72df
https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/A171034250/GPS?u=wikipedia&sid=GPS&xid=dbbf72df
, but they weren't generating citations on Citoid so fell back on the
preformatted citations which are three buttons over. *

Thanks, I have just tried these links on both the api and en wiki and they work. Are you still experiencing the problem?

Since I didn't get any further information about this bug to duplicate it, I'm closing as invalid. Feel free to re-open if you can provide further information!