Not working with Flickr images for some reason

  • Hello.

    This plugin seems like what I’ve been trying to find (thanks!), because I have a site full of external-referenced Flickr images that I’d like to import into my media library so I can close my Flickr account without the site breaking.

    Unfortunately I can’t seem to get it to work, and it seems to have something to do with Flickr. Is this a bug or am I doing something wrong?

    For example, here’s an image tag that references a random image in Flickr that I’ve generated with the Share function just now*:

    <img src="https://live.staticflickr.com/5046/5244042637_dab798d630_m.jpg" width="240" height="158" alt="Nelson Street (now Ashe Street), Tralee, Co. Kerry">

    When I click Update to save the post, the plugin translates it to look like what’s below. It’s removed the src attribute entirely, and not downloaded anything:

    <img alt="5244042637_dab798d630_m-9653020" width="240" height="158">

    In the media library it seems to have tried to create an image, because there’s a 14kb object there, but if I paste my media library’s URL into a browser, I’m told it’s not a valid image.

    I’m reasonably sure it’s something about Flickr, because the plugin with the same settings happily pulls the Google logo into my media library, and correctly references it, if I place the following element in the post:

    <img src="https://www.google.com/images/branding/googlelogo/1x/googlelogo_color_272x92dp.png" />

    Is this about the plugin failing to download the image, for some reason, and is there a known issue with flickr images, or (even better) something that can easily be fixed?

    * From my blog I’m referencing my own account’s images in Flickr, but for this example I’ve picked a random shared Flickr image that’s likely to be visible long after I’ve closed my flickr account. Flickr itself generates badly formed HTML for the tag, but I can still see the plugin work correctly if I have that HTML reference non-flickr images.

    For reference, I’m using the plugin version 1.0.1, WordPress 5.8.1, both current as of yesterday. I’ve enabled the plugin with default default settings in place EXCEPT for adjusting the Images Source to say From Original Links Only. Then I’ve gone and re-saved an existing post by clicking the Update button.

    Thanks for any help.

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  • Lisa Clarke

    (@polkadotcreations)

    @izogi Did you ever find an acceptable solution to this issue? I am attempting to close my Flickr account as well, but I have several years of posts that rely on it.

    I tried the Auto Upload Images plugin, and it worked for some of my posts, but there are still many images that it ignores for some reason.

    It sounds from your post like it might be a Flickr issue, but I really am hoping you found a solution you can share, because spending $72 for another year of a service I don’t actively use anymore is hard to swallow.

    Thread Starter izogi

    (@izogi)

    @polkadotcreations not yet I’m afraid. I’ll post back here if I do. My best guess is that Flickr detects the browser identification, or something else to detect web crawlers, and doesn’t serve images back to requests it thinks aren’t interactive web users… So possibly whichever method of requesting used by this plugin doesn’t look enough like an interactive user.

    My Flickr account rolls around again in a few months so I might have another look then, but am away from home right now. Maybe there’s an edit to the plugin code that could make it look more like a normal web browser as far as Flickr is concerned.

    Lisa Clarke

    (@polkadotcreations)

    Thanks for the fast reply.

    It turns out my problem was related to exceeding my file count on my hosting. I addressed that, and tried this plugin, and it’s working well for me (still running in the background, but it appears to be doing what it’s supposed to).

    My download settings, in case that helps you:
    Images source Try original links first, then Web Archive
    Failure action Keep
    Missing local images Ignore
    Start downloading Immediately
    Auto images import Enabled

    Good luck!

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