Gallery not loading for Google Photos

  • Resolved dday1

    (@dday1)


    1 year, 1 month ago

    When I try to load a gallery, it shows the loading spinner but nothing else happens. If I open the developer console, it shows a bunch of 403 (Forbidden) errors. One example of this is: 

    https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/lr/AAJ1LKdb0WZgaH0C09j8vhbwhM6ehJrrl4nA1fwfSGurTvYS9cq2CFy-2g8VOxyg9s5xff835fC0lt7XFQH0kiAENKsD99hB_psmnt1aEzUSU8Xxs22UMrZpE99ilpVDerSPsLCAZBBDS0gx0ksLl3KozBlvfhR1w0k165jIV59_C3U7q-tqfym7PNXxY8z67BSbBeWcvinHU7zT0QNuZCPpJtUctrF0ee_By3L_LmJ0vEbo3fz71hkgoAT1XN5aU8-Biuph_xGS2gA8Z7qubpmZ-qGi7tHLJGKDffrOVQgDqLWDb60lj-6lL_cdOr8Idyz5lfDUAq1Xjc4r62L6i1qqOr1kS5BHpBgPeNx0eDMbMAuSybq7kODeoeJbjycBqwQ5eLkoU7JQpbk85nr6UluDFWGkdZcxLNFoDYyt6esY1pR8BksYB8-rWVXzMQQCKIgjAczo8gfQL08fAXITciR1_76Xddn2RDe-5esuV0shfa8hvwjextZvnYC7k0OLVPWnGO3SCmf2V1Lkv_d2E3ghsRcpX9lOn_efTOvOyA4s5eydDnqTUDU4l_ItoXykJ7UdD_TffLQ02rdaa8tWm2kQECCzVUqVrv8rUePbGEwUxgzw5uk3x3-U7vCw3JE85Kkxq7AnvqQodhCeYRBLlnaRPKMXKFkPmlCvJSzuyilVtB0wvuN7qG70Jdi06Ho1SwNFkR7yhdljEwDesZokO_oNF-2WjizNMbBc0Ypnvv-QDeRHIkdpEQxKOjYDEGExHsD-TCbAKnggJocvcPEaHzG3iZXRpqTxMeRrQ7cTRil5PSmw2uO573_sYlrL3nNdaucikBsxdPxvrL1s2SSVnLCw6zNXJHMLwsyz31q4KV8EZNFGbNsp0lG9TPxZclZnGwXTBA9xd2pjxeygu-b4PTVnszKLGE1Ejz4DOQ8CLQ8_2nQ-kC-s4-HOsn8VNEu6SHozXigJp6EbWIaez_rOwS0StHNFA9ytng=w1600-h1600

    Sometimes if I refresh the page, then it works fine, but sometimes that doesn’t work. I have already tried doing the auth workaround as shown here: https://aquoid.com/plugins/photonic/google-photos/#auth-workaround but it didn’t work. Is there anything else I can try?

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  • Plugin Author Sayontan Sinha

    (@sayontan)

    You haven’t provided a URL, so I cannot say for sure. However, based on experience, I believe you have a caching issue. Google Photos’ links are not cacheable. This is documented as an FAQ item on the plugin page. None of the other platforms has this issue – only Google Photos expires its links after around 30 minutes. So, if you are using a caching plugin, the content it has cached expires after around 30 minutes, resulting in error code 403.

    You have two options:

    1. Exclude these pages from your caching plugin’s configuration.
    2. Alternatively, use the JS load mode as documented here. Specifically see the reasoning as documented under “Use the JS mode if”, which highlights Google Photos as a use case.

    Thread Starter dday1

    (@dday1)

    I disabled my caching plugin, but I’m still getting the same issue. Sorry about the lack of a URL. Here is an example: https://dondretrotman.com/clients/yscp0nh/

    Plugin Author Sayontan Sinha

    (@sayontan)

    You still have caching enabled; the last line on the source code of your page says this:

    <!-- Cache Enabler by KeyCDN @ Thu, 01 Feb 2024 15:20:06 GMT (https-index.html) -->
    Thread Starter dday1

    (@dday1)

    Ok, thanks. I had to completely uninstall the Cache Enabler plugin instead of only deactivating it. It seems to be working now.

    Plugin Author Sayontan Sinha

    (@sayontan)

    You could always use the second option I gave you instead of disabling your cache – the JS load mode is pretty good with caching.

    Thread Starter dday1

    (@dday1)

    Ok I will try that, thanks!

    Edit: It works!

    • This reply was modified 1 year, 1 month ago by dday1.
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