# Onebox and Flickr issues?

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/onebox-and-flickr-issues/27923
**Category:** Bug
**Created:** [April 24, 2015, 9:05pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/onebox-and-flickr-issues/27923 "2015-04-24T21:05:54Z")
**Posts on this page:** 4
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### Author: ![Patrick\_David](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/patrick_david/32/119657_2.png) [@Patrick\_David](https://meta.discourse.org/u/Patrick_David)
#### Post date: [April 24, 2015, 9:05pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/onebox-and-flickr-issues/27923/1 "2015-04-24T21:05:54Z")

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I just wanted to see if any issues were known about Flickr and onebox working correctly. I had previously been able to post a url to a flickr photo page, and onebox would correctly grab the image:

[![Imgur](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/9/5/95ee3df341a5349fe88416d54a0e56aa7f0a98ea.jpeg "Mad Max Fury Road Trailer 2 - Amalgamation") ](https://www.flickr.com/photos/patdavid/17247263555/)

As of now it doesn’t do anything other than turn it into a link. Production logs show:

```plaintext
Processing by OneboxController#show as HTML
  Parameters: {"url"=>"https://www.flickr.com/photos/patdavid/16548303178/", "refresh"=>"false"}
  Rendered text template (0.0ms)
Completed 404 Not Found in 262ms (Views: 1.3ms | ActiveRecord: 16.3ms)

```

I can confirm that it _does_ still work for Flickr profiles:

[![Imgur](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/7/1/716a87431d3f17f558853e0fc03a17cfc1d1d26a.jpeg "Pat David") ](https://www.flickr.com/photos/patdavid/)

As well as for 500px image pages:

![]( "500px")

Could it be related to?  
[https://github.com/discourse/onebox/pull/282](https://github.com/discourse/onebox/pull/282)

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### Author: ![codinghorror](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/codinghorror/32/110067_2.png) [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [April 25, 2015, 1:47am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/onebox-and-flickr-issues/27923/2 "2015-04-25T01:47:37Z")

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Possibly, @techapj can you take a look?

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### Author: ![techAPJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/techapj/32/342990_2.png) [@techAPJ](https://meta.discourse.org/u/techAPJ)
#### Post date: [April 25, 2015, 8:54pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/onebox-and-flickr-issues/27923/3 "2015-04-25T20:54:01Z")

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Wow, I spent at least 4 hours on this issue, just to find out that the Open Graph meta tags for Flickr are generated dynamically! 😮

`<meta property="og:type" content="flickr_photos:photo" data-dynamic="true">`

(notice the `data-dynamc` attribute)

I just sent a PR to use oEmbed in case of Flickr instead of Open Graph.

[https://github.com/discourse/onebox/pull/292](https://github.com/discourse/onebox/pull/292)

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### Author: ![techAPJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/techapj/32/342990_2.png) [@techAPJ](https://meta.discourse.org/u/techAPJ)
#### Post date: [April 26, 2015, 3:08am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/onebox-and-flickr-issues/27923/4 "2015-04-26T03:08:28Z")

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