Searching sciencedirect doesn't work, most likely because of changes on their website. At first I thought that changing everything to https might be enough, but unfortunately the search form changed too. kbibtex(29247) OnlineSearchAbstract::handleErrors: Search using "ScienceDirect" failed (error code 301 ( "Protocol "" is unknown" ), HTTP code 0 : "" ) As far as I could see, nothing has changed in this area recently, so it's most likely broken in 0.8 too.
https://dev.elsevier.com/user/login -- Maybe using their proper API is more useful though.
https://github.com/JabRef/jabref/issues/1258 for reference
I am aware of this problem. I have some working code which already uses this API but it has some rough edges I'd like to fix before I push the commits and make a new release. The problem is due to be fixed in 0.8.2
Git commit c0865f306c3ff48fe6e5de5135403ef58c575b52 by Thomas Fischer. Committed on 09/08/2018 at 20:23. Pushed by thomasfischer into branch 'kbibtex/0.8'. ScienceDirect now uses official API Search on Elsevier's ScienceDirect has been refactored to use the official API. KBibTeX got its own API key granted (obfuscated in code). A new XSL transformation got written for the XML data returned by this online service. FIXED-IN: 0.8.2 M +92 -208 src/networking/onlinesearch/onlinesearchsciencedirect.cpp M +2 -5 src/networking/onlinesearch/onlinesearchsciencedirect.h M +1 -0 xslt/CMakeLists.txt A +134 -0 xslt/sciencedirectsearchapi-to-bibtex.xsl https://commits.kde.org/kbibtex/c0865f306c3ff48fe6e5de5135403ef58c575b52
Git commit 1f661be9bd3a4db5ebd7520d065112bc556bdf8f by Thomas Fischer. Committed on 18/08/2018 at 10:41. Pushed by thomasfischer into branch 'master'. ScienceDirect now uses official API Search on Elsevier's ScienceDirect has been refactored to use the official API. KBibTeX got its own API key granted (obfuscated in code). A new XSL transformation got written for the XML data returned by this online service. M +88 -198 src/networking/onlinesearch/onlinesearchsciencedirect.cpp M +2 -5 src/networking/onlinesearch/onlinesearchsciencedirect.h M +1 -0 xslt/CMakeLists.txt A +134 -0 xslt/sciencedirectsearchapi-to-bibtex.xsl https://commits.kde.org/kbibtex/1f661be9bd3a4db5ebd7520d065112bc556bdf8f