# Google Scholar won't work

**URL:** <https://discourse.jabref.org/t/google-scholar-wont-work/1270>\
**Category:** Help\
**Created:** [July 25, 2018, 6:56pm UTC](https://discourse.jabref.org/t/google-scholar-wont-work/1270 "2018-07-25T18:56:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![dteplow](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bc8723/32.png) [@dteplow](https://discourse.jabref.org/u/dteplow)\
**Post date:** [July 25, 2018, 6:56pm UTC](https://discourse.jabref.org/t/google-scholar-wont-work/1270/1 "2018-07-25T18:56:00Z")

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I’m having an error that has been reported many times over the years, namely that when I search on Google Scholar (from JR 3.8.2 running on a Mac Pro, Early 2009, 2.66 GHz Quad-Core Intel Xeon, 20 GB of 1066 MHz DDR3, OS X 10.11.6), I get an error message and no output

 ![image](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/uploads/jabref/original/1X/78ee277ff89f400c50fb83f4e170c673529df359.jpg) . I have closed and reopened JR, which did not help. I have tried to use Google Scholar from Firefox and from Safari, both of which worked fine and did not request assurance I was not a robot [https://help.jabref.org/en/GoogleScholar](https://help.jabref.org/en/GoogleScholar). Any ideas on how to solve this problem?

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**Author:** ![Siedlerchr](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex030/user_avatar/discourse.jabref.org/siedlerchr/32/216_2.png) [@Siedlerchr](https://discourse.jabref.org/u/Siedlerchr)\
**Post date:** [July 26, 2018, 2:38pm UTC](https://discourse.jabref.org/t/google-scholar-wont-work/1270/2 "2018-07-26T14:38:45Z")

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Unfortunately it seems to be an issue on the server side of Google:

> <https://github.com/JabRef/jabref/issues/4027>

A few days ago it was working for a moment but seems to be broken again due to their anti bot robot check…somehow