relates to this site: https://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/national-international/CVS-to-Sell-CBD-Products-in-800-Stores-in-8-States-507484191.html I get a onebox failure in logs: Failed to onebox https://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/national-international/CVS-to-Sell-CBD-Products-in-800-Stores-in-8-States-507484191.html unexpected character () at line 9, column 2 [parse.c:704] more info: REQUEST_URI /onebox?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nbcsandiego.com%2Fnews%2Fnational-international%2FCVS-to-Sell-CBD-Products-in-800-Stores-in-8-States-507484191.html&refresh=false This link previews fine in iframely, facebook etc. If anyone is interested in pursuing this let me know if you need more info.

2019-03-22 10:42:42 - MultiJson::ParseError - 767: unexpected token at ' 404 Not Found 404 Not Found The provided content is neither a Video Release nor does it contain a Video Release in Related Media. Example Request Format: https://www.nbcnewyork.com/services/oembed/?url=https://www.nbcnewyork.com/sample/path/Sample-Article-Example-12345678.html ': /Users/joffreyjaffeux/.rubies/ruby-2.6.1/lib/ruby/2.6.0/json/common.rb:156:in `parse' /Users/joffreyjaffeux/.rubies/ruby-2.6.1/lib/ruby/2.6.0/json/common.rb:156:in `parse' /Users/joffreyjaffeux/.gem/ruby/2.6.1/gems/multi_json-1.13.1/lib/multi_json/adapters/json_common.rb:14:in `load' /Users/joffreyjaffeux/.gem/ruby/2.6.1/gems/multi_json-1.13.1/lib/multi_json/adapter.rb:21:in `load' /Users/joffreyjaffeux/.gem/ruby/2.6.1/gems/multi_json-1.13.1/lib/multi_json.rb:122:in `load' /Users/joffreyjaffeux/Projects/onebox/lib/onebox/oembed.rb:6:in `initialize' lib/onebox/oembed.rb main # frozen_string_literal: true module Onebox class Oembed < OpenGraph def initialize(response) @data = Onebox::Helpers.symbolize_keys(::MultiJson.load(response)) # never use oembed from WordPress 4.4 (it's broken) data.delete(:html) if data[:html] && data[:html]["wp-embedded-content"] end def html get(:html, nil, false) end We are trying to get oembed content from CVS to Sell CBD Products in 800 Stores in 8 States – NBC New York which is a 404 The thing is, this URL comes from their page source: So I would day the bug is from them, not us.

Yes, I’ve seen a related error. I did try to byebug it through … let me see if I can find that … will update

Thank you, that doesn’t surprise me at all! Forgive me if I sound stupid here: there’s no way we could make this more resilient and tolerate this as basic goal is to retrieve just title, excerpt, thumbnail, etc.?

You can always make things more resilient, proof is: it’s working on iFramely. Now I don’t know if we want to invest time fixing blatant issues like this one. @zogstrip ?

[image] j.jaffeux: Now I don’t know if we want to invest time fixing blatant issues like this one. @zogstrip ? Yeah, nooooo. They’re sending back the HTTP status code 200 with the HTML content of a 404 on a JSON request… :man_facepalming:

FYI I even tried to tell them using their website feedback form … and the submission gets stuck at an unresponsive Captcha dialogue :man_facepalming:

Strange onebox failure due to malformed 404

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j.jaffeux (Joffrey Jaffeux) March 22, 2019, 9:43am 2

Feels like something is expecting JSON and getting HTML.

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