# Oneboxing blocked by robot check
**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/oneboxing-blocked-by-robot-check/173594
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [December 17, 2020, 2:35pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/oneboxing-blocked-by-robot-check/173594 "2020-12-17T14:35:25Z")
**Posts on this page:** 8
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### Author:  [@breetai](https://meta.discourse.org/u/breetai)
#### Post date: [December 17, 2020, 2:35pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/oneboxing-blocked-by-robot-check/173594/1 "2020-12-17T14:35:25Z")
I am seeing this on a sites and it just started. When Discourse tries to pull the information from the site it is blocked. THis use to work in prior versions.
I have included a link as an example
[Bloomberg - Are you a robot?](https://www.bloomberg.com/tosv2.html?vid=&uuid=dfb50010-4073-11eb-bde2-59e18427e7d0&url=L29waW5pb24vYXJ0aWNsZXMvMjAyMC0wMS0yOS9wZWVyLXJldmlldy1pcy1zY2llbmNlLXMtd2hlZWwtb2YtbWlzZm9ydHVuZQ==)
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### Author:  [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)
#### Post date: [December 17, 2020, 3:04pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/oneboxing-blocked-by-robot-check/173594/2 "2020-12-17T15:04:06Z")
It looks like rate limiting by Bloomberg. There likely isn’t much you can do other than infer what the limits are and contrive to stay under them.
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [December 19, 2020, 2:29am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/oneboxing-blocked-by-robot-check/173594/3 "2020-12-19T02:29:58Z")
What exactly are you trying to onebox here? The URL is quite strange.
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### Author:  [@breetai](https://meta.discourse.org/u/breetai)
#### Post date: [December 19, 2020, 2:42am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/oneboxing-blocked-by-robot-check/173594/4 "2020-12-19T02:42:44Z")
Bloomberg news article. If you click on the link. Thahs the article.
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### Author:  [@merefield](https://meta.discourse.org/u/merefield)
#### Post date: [December 19, 2020, 7:39am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/oneboxing-blocked-by-robot-check/173594/5 "2020-12-19T07:39:47Z")
Try ["Onebox Assistant", crawl for those previews reliably!](https://meta.discourse.org/t/onebox-assistant-crawl-for-those-previews-reliably/107405)
Works with Bloomberg links iirc.
What’s the original link? The one you’ve pasted above is not an article, it’s a destination you’ve been redirected to I suspect.
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### Author:  [@breetai](https://meta.discourse.org/u/breetai)
#### Post date: [December 19, 2020, 7:34pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/oneboxing-blocked-by-robot-check/173594/6 "2020-12-19T19:34:20Z")
`https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-01-29/peer-review-is-science-s-wheel-of-misfortune`
This is the link.
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### Author:  [@codinghorror](https://meta.discourse.org/u/codinghorror)
#### Post date: [December 19, 2020, 8:11pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/oneboxing-blocked-by-robot-check/173594/7 "2020-12-19T20:11:41Z")
I see, here’s the link
`http://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-01-29/peer-review-is-science-s-wheel-of-misfortune`
[http://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-01-29/peer-review-is-science-s-wheel-of-misfortune](http://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2020-01-29/peer-review-is-science-s-wheel-of-misfortune)
Looks like they have pretty aggressive anti-scraping in place, since all we’re doing is checking for metadata headers..
Also yet another example of where we shouldn’t be oneboxing at all because **we have neither image nor description** cc @techAPJ @sam .. we really gotta backport that change to stable once it goes in next week.
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### Author:  [@JimPas](https://meta.discourse.org/u/JimPas)
#### Post date: [December 20, 2020, 5:40am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/oneboxing-blocked-by-robot-check/173594/8 "2020-12-20T05:40:22Z")
I just tried the link ending up to the html extension (minus all the trailing characters) just using Firefox, _not_ Discourse Onebox. The error extended error message is below the line. The 1st link (which has the error msg below) is enclosed in \<\> here. The second link is without being enclosed in \<\> and gives the title of the URL as shown.
[https://www.bloomberg.com/tosv2.html](https://www.bloomberg.com/tosv2.html)
[Bloomberg - Are you a robot?](https://www.bloomberg.com/tosv2.html)
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