Strange onebox failure due to malformed 404

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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.

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Feels like something is expecting JSON and getting HTML.

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

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2019-03-22 10:42:42 - MultiJson::ParseError - 767: unexpected token at '<head>
<title>404 Not Found</title>
</head><body>
<h1>404 Not Found</h1>
  <p>The provided content is neither a Video Release nor does it contain a Video Release in Related Media.<br>Example Request Format: https://www.nbcnewyork.com/services/oembed/?url=https://www.nbcnewyork.com/sample/path/Sample-Article-Example-12345678.html</p>
</body></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'

https://github.com/discourse/onebox/blob/master/lib/onebox/oembed.rb#L5

We are trying to get oembed content from https://www.nbcnewyork.com/services/oembed/?url=https://www.nbcdfw.com/news/health/CVS-to-Sell-CBD-Products-in-800-Stores-in-8-States-507484191.html which is a 404

The thing is, this URL comes from their page source:

<link rel="alternate" type="application/json+oembed"
    href="https://www.nbcnewyork.com/services/oembed/?url=https://www.nbcsandiego.com/news/national-international/CVS-to-Sell-CBD-Products-in-800-Stores-in-8-States-507484191.html"
    title="CVS to Sell CBD Products in 800 Stores in 8 States - NBC 7 San Diego " />

So I would day the bug is from them, not us.

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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.?

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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 ?

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Yeah, nooooo.

They’re sending back the HTTP status code 200 with the HTML content of a 404 on a JSON request… :man_facepalming:

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

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