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•Created by SirShadowShark on 2/11/2024 in #djs-questions

403 Error due to new image expiration?

Hey all, I'm unfortunately having issues with a ticket transcript system that I created for my discord bot. I've done some researching and I've come to the conclusion that I may not have access to the content I'm trying to fetch, or I've been flagged and limited. What boggles my mind is that I never had an issue in the past 3-4 months with this approach, but I am now, so I'm more so leaning towards I'm being limited, or not requesting an image correctly for discord. I will admit it is rather primitive on how I made this function, so, apologies. Here is my code that seems to be causing my issue, as well as an abbreviated error code that I receive when calling it. I did do some more digging and found that there was a new discord image expiration, or link / attachment expiration due to not wanting malware to be spread. Currently I am unsure how to request this new type of format with a bot. fetchImage:

async function fetchImage(url) {
    try {
        console.log(`Attempting to fetch image from URL: ${url}`);
        const response = await axios.get(url, {
            responseType: 'arraybuffer',
            headers: {
                'User-Agent': 'RemovedforPrivacy/1.0',
                'Authorization': `Bot ${botToken}` //try bot token for auth, no work.
            }
        });
        console.log(`Image fetched successfully: ${url}`);
        return Buffer.from(response.data, 'binary');
    } catch (error) {
        console.error(`Error fetching image from URL: ${url}`, error);
        
       //Retry once after a delay if it's a 5xx server error
        if (error.response && error.response.status >= 500) {
            console.log(`Retrying image fetch for URL: ${url} after delay...`);
            await delay(1000); // Wait for 1 second before retrying
            try {
                const retryResponse = await axios.get(url, {
                    responseType: 'arraybuffer',
                    headers: {
                        'Authorization': `Bot ${botToken}` //did not work.
                    }
                });
                console.log(`Image fetched successfully after retry: ${url}`);
                return Buffer.from(retryResponse.data, 'binary');
            } catch (retryError) {
                console.error(`Retry failed for image URL: ${url}`, retryError);
                return null; 
            }
        } else {
            return null; 
        }
    }
}

async function fetchImage(url) {
    try {
        console.log(`Attempting to fetch image from URL: ${url}`);
        const response = await axios.get(url, {
            responseType: 'arraybuffer',
            headers: {
                'User-Agent': 'RemovedforPrivacy/1.0',
                'Authorization': `Bot ${botToken}` //try bot token for auth, no work.
            }
        });
        console.log(`Image fetched successfully: ${url}`);
        return Buffer.from(response.data, 'binary');
    } catch (error) {
        console.error(`Error fetching image from URL: ${url}`, error);
        
       //Retry once after a delay if it's a 5xx server error
        if (error.response && error.response.status >= 500) {
            console.log(`Retrying image fetch for URL: ${url} after delay...`);
            await delay(1000); // Wait for 1 second before retrying
            try {
                const retryResponse = await axios.get(url, {
                    responseType: 'arraybuffer',
                    headers: {
                        'Authorization': `Bot ${botToken}` //did not work.
                    }
                });
                console.log(`Image fetched successfully after retry: ${url}`);
                return Buffer.from(retryResponse.data, 'binary');
            } catch (retryError) {
                console.error(`Retry failed for image URL: ${url}`, retryError);
                return null; 
            }
        } else {
            return null; 
        }
    }
}

little annoying error: Error fetching image from URL: (dicsord image url) AxiosError: Request failed with status code 403 code: 'ERR_BAD_REQUEST', I'm fairly certain I've overlooked something rather simple, so apologies in advance, but any and all help is greatly appreciated! 😄

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