drawBot.misc.DrawBotError: No image found at http:...

ChrisSwift

Re: can't fetch image from url (python3 version)

This topic was semi-resolved already, but I am running into it also.

I am running the image.py code from the site.

# the path can be a path to a file or a url
image("http://f.cl.ly/items/1T3x1y372J371p0v1F2Z/drawBot.jpg", (100, 100), alpha=.3)

and I am getting this error:

Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "drawBot/ui/drawBotController.pyc", line 119, in createContext
  File "drawBot/drawBotDrawingTools.pyc", line 121, in _drawInContext
  File "drawBot/context/baseContext.pyc", line 2365, in image
  File "drawBot/context/pdfContext.pyc", line 276, in _image
  File "drawBot/context/pdfContext.pyc", line 270, in _getImageSource
drawBot.misc.DrawBotError: No image found at http://f.cl.ly/items/1T3x1y372J371p0v1F2Z/drawBot.jpg

I am using DrawBot 3.120

Thanks

gferreira

hello @ChrisSwift,

I think the error message is correct: there really isn’t any image at this URL. if you paste it in a browser, you will be redirected to another domain where the image is hosted.

it works fine if you use the actual image URL:

image("https://s3.amazonaws.com/f.cl.ly/items/1T3x1y372J371p0v1F2Z/drawBot.jpg", (100, 100))

not sure if this is a DrawBot bug…

cheers!

ChrisSwift

huh...ya that worked.

It seems a little hit or miss for me.

I tried
https://placekitten.com/1000/1000 and it does not work
but I tried
https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/6069803/60276528-cc99f100-98c9-11e9-8a34-a749eef157a3.png
and it did work

Glad to know that it can work, but I am just running into something odd.

Thanks

frederik

The kitten example is not the url to the actual image data.

The url to an image needs to be a direct link to the image data, no html, no javascript.

good luck!

ChrisSwift

@frederik thanks

MauriceMeilleur

Ran into this same problem—@gferreira's updated URL works, but someone should update the DB pdf documentation for image(), etc. to include it and @frederik's detail about a direct link to image data.

frederik

this seems to be fixed:
https://www.drawbot.com/content/image/drawingImages.html#drawBot.image

which pdf are you talking about?

MauriceMeilleur

@frederik https://www.drawbot.com/_/downloads/en/stable/pdf/, and my bad: I was using an old version of the documentation (3.121). I see the 3.126 version has a working URL. (The line break is breaking the link in the pdf, though.)