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•Created by Shantismurf on 3/10/2025 in #djs-questions

EmbedBuilder thumbnail issue

My bot scrapes data from pages on archiveofourown.org and uses it to build an embed. Recent changes to their server structure have led to a change in their image hosting url convention. Previously, the icon for a collection, for example, would have been something like https://s3.amazonaws.com/otw-ao3-icons/collections/icons/1202098/standard.jpg And now it is:

https://archiveofourown.org/rails/active_storage/representations/proxy/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsibWVzc2FnZSI6IkJBaHBBd0wzQkE9PSIsImV4cCI6bnVsbCwicHVyIjoiYmxvYl9pZCJ9fQ==--89e42f456776250b65a1b0ce5fd453afdbe965f8/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsibWVzc2FnZSI6IkJBaDdCem9MWm05eWJXRjBTU0lJYW5CbkJqb0dSVlE2RkhKbGMybDZaVjkwYjE5c2FXMXBkRnNIYVdscGFRPT0iLCJleHAiOm51bGwsInB1ciI6InZhcmlhdGlvbiJ9fQ==--b473e4b7ae8a5cd4b8fa012a59568c3797a2119a/original.jpg

When I send this url as the thumbnail of an embed, nothing is displayed. When I send this url directly as a message through the discord client, it renders correctly. Is there anything that I can do to troubleshoot why this would fail? I have a feeling it's related to the ==-- portion of the url, but I have no way of knowing as no error is generated. Here is the console.log output of what I'm sending to the EmbedBuilder function. It worked correctly before the url change.

`{
  "color":16737792,
  "title":"Bagginshield Book Club",
  "url":"https://archiveofourown.org/collections/BagginshieldBookClub",
  "description":":orange_circle: Link posted by @shantismurf",
  "fields":[
    {"name":"Description:","value":"This is a collection of stories that the Bagginshield Book Club on Discord has read and discussed since we started having weekly discussions in June of 2023.  If you would like to join in on the discussion,  please come check us out!"},
    {"name":"--------------------","value":"-# Restricted works are not included in counts:"},
    {"name":"\t","value":"Works (0), Bookmarked Items (69)"},
    {"name":"\t","value":"Subcollections (0), Fandoms (0)"},
    {"name":"Recent bookmarks","value":"- [think about all the places we could go](https://archiveofourown.org//collections/BagginshieldBookClub/works/3530120) by bellamysblakes (puddingandpie) (T)\n- [Lost Hopes and New Beginnings](https://archiveofourown.org//collections/BagginshieldBookClub/works/57658606) by Wildpoet (E)\n- [We were lovers in a past life](https://archiveofourown.org//collections/BagginshieldBookClub/works/675894) by westofnowhere (E)\n- [Er... Mistletoe?](https://archiveofourown.org//collections/BagginshieldBookClub/works/2820644) by bubbysbub (G)\n- [A Yuletide Wish](https://archiveofourown.org//collections/BagginshieldBookClub/works/35503927) by Slow_Burn_Sally (M)\n"}],
  "thumbnail":{"url":"https://archiveofourown.org/rails/active_storage/representations/proxy/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsibWVzc2FnZSI6IkJBaHBBd0wzQkE9PSIsImV4cCI6bnVsbCwicHVyIjoiYmxvYl9pZCJ9fQ==--89e42f456776250b65a1b0ce5fd453afdbe965f8/eyJfcmFpbHMiOnsibWVzc2FnZSI6IkJBaDdCem9MWm05eWJXRjBTU0lJYW5CbkJqb0dSVlE2RkhKbGMybDZaVjkwYjE5c2FXMXBkRnNIYVdscGFRPT0iLCJleHAiOm51bGwsInB1ciI6InZhcmlhdGlvbiJ9fQ==--b473e4b7ae8a5cd4b8fa012a59568c3797a2119a/original.jpg"},
  "footer":{"text":"Status: (Closed, Moderated)"}
}

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