Failed to get a proxied URL for the image

artegic · 2013-08-15T07:33:12.000Z

I get the follow error “Failed to get a proxied URL for the image”

Example: Anlässe für personalisierte Angebote im E-Mail Marketing

NoTypeIDI · 2013-08-15T08:24:19.000Z

Hi, we are having the same issue, validator sometimes says everything is ok, other times says Failed to get a proxied URL for the image.When tweeting the content everything appears ok but the image. Sample page http://alcantarastone.com/index.php/projects/transport-and-infrastructures/puerta-del-sol-communter-train-station
Robots are ok, tried changing image to another one with a shorter url, same problem. Any ideas of whats going on?

kirlink · 2013-08-15T10:06:52.000Z

Same problems. Example: http://www.tehnostudio.ru/photos/zMzTY5NTY4LmpwZyMqIyojKiMzMDAjKiMqIyojMAw.jpg

lemmertwitt · 2013-08-15T18:59:28.000Z

In case anyone is in the same scenario I found myself in, it turned out the failure of images to load in the Twitter card previews had to do with HTTP headers. It was confusing at first because sometimes the Card validator would green light all fields, other times display the “Failed to get a proxied URL” message. But either way no image would load.

Finally realized that one of the directories from which our images (used in the Cards tests) were being served had specific noindex,nofollow robots headers being sent out. Was to prevent random non-image files from being indexed by Google et al. Took some testing to eventually realize Twitter’s system was respecting these headers as well. Disabled these noindex headers on the images directory and all is well.

This tool is helpful to check your headers:

web-sniffer.net

View HTTP Request and Response Header

view request and response header of a HTTP connection, HTTP status codes and HTML source

Hope this helps someone.

justapor · 2013-08-16T04:20:00.000Z

I am having a similar issue. Here’s an example image url: http://lh5.ggpht.com/zI1lBW68Pn45Tz3nZ4PJ4qK1FS8TLsCzFThndwpBSEMx69MtOF1RpGlcPz-fv2gKofodiUrBS0ObV7WAM14KHlU

j_holtslander · 2013-08-18T02:05:29.000Z

Me too.
What I’d like to know is if this is just a problem with the validator or not.

HotelTravel · 2013-08-19T04:36:48.000Z

We are still having problems with this issue. it seems to be working for Tweets coming from our blog (different server) but main site its not working. Latest example image is this one http://res.hoteltravel.com/germany/frankfurt/articleimages/boutique_hotels_museumsuferfest_1.jpg

meow_app · 2013-08-19T15:57:00.000Z

Seems image specific, only happens to certain images.
This image happens 100% down, but others work fine.

Erro: Failed to get a proxied URL for the image.
Link: http://minus.com/lqZTZ6X1rjZw6
Used: https://dev.twitter.com/docs/cards/validation/validator

Also how can we whitelist all wildcard subdomains for profiles on Minus? Example is http://john.minus.com

Thanks

alerocomua · 2013-08-20T08:30:00.000Z

Same problem here. Example: http://alero.com.ua/components/com_virtuemart/shop_image/product/La_Scala_Y230_47_4f5f569abaf8c.jpg

adam_bates · 2013-08-20T15:24:04.000Z

I am getting the same problem too.
http://www.rubyrhino.co.uk/collection/handmade-upcycled-furniture/camille-painted-chest-of-drawers/

If there is an error will this prevent the twitter card from displaying at all?

gentakojima · 2013-08-22T08:19:59.000Z

Same problem on http://citius.usc.es/ (Summary card) and http://citius.usc.es/novidades/canle-citius/460 (Video card). That’s odd enough, because on the video card I get the image directly from youtube, and it seems to work fine there!

Edit: As of today, it’s working for local images (it was NOT working yesterday), but not for the youtube ones! What could be happening?

ajbozdar · 2013-08-22T13:17:43.000Z

Error Error Errorr
Here is my image source and it is not working.
http://ajbozdar.me/wp-content/uploads/2013/08/abdul-jabbar-bozdar_impossible-e1377171746883.jpg

here is the meta:

Error:
Failed to get a proxied URL for the image.

What to do with it now?

GranPC · 2013-08-26T11:28:48.000Z

Removing the underscores from my image link helped. That’s pretty absurd.

rchoi · 2013-08-28T06:27:26.000Z

Sorry for the delay. In testing now, it seems to work. I did use this technique to help refresh stale cache content, if it’s helpful:

https://dev.twitter.com/docs/cards/troubleshooting#caching

rchoi · 2013-08-28T07:29:35.000Z

Hi @alerocomua,

When I run it now, i see “Denied by robots.txt”

Check this URL and search for robots.txt on how to configure your servers (or ask you sysadmins to configure it!)

https://dev.twitter.com/docs/cards/troubleshooting

Thanks!

rchoi · 2013-08-28T07:32:32.000Z

Hi @ajbozdar!

I tested the validator against the following URL: http://ajbozdar.me/the-father-poem-by-ronald-ross/

It appears to work now. Please give it a shot and let me know.

Thanks!

Ryan

richarddcrosby · 2013-08-28T08:10:51.000Z

Hey,
Glad to see there are finally some Twitter devs back on the scene.

I’ve been having mixed success with Twitter cards. Predominately the ‘proxied image’ error.

All referenced images are stored with Amazon S3. Some time the image will display correctly - at other times the same image will not display at all.

Just tried this URL -

furniturevillage.co.uk

Armchairs & Chairs - Furniture Village

Discover the comfiest, most stylish armchairs at the best prices at Furniture Village. Contemporary, classic, leather, velvet and so much more!

And get the proxied image error.

Don’t suppose you can point me in the right direction?

Thanks,
Richard.

slobodanmanic · 2013-08-28T20:41:22.000Z

Hey,

I have the same problem, with this URL:

Search Engine Journal – 3 May 13

"Look Ma, no pager!" Scaling a WordPress Media Network Without Losing Your...

I learned the hard way how to efficiently manage both small sites and large sites. My hope is that by outlining our best practices, it will help others.

Est. reading time: 5 minutes

Not sure what I’m doing wrong, but would really appreciate your help.

liepajniekiemlv · 2013-08-29T20:57:46.000Z

Getting errors with gallery cards Rallija mašīnas iet tehnisko apskati | liepajniekiem.lv and summary_large_image cards Tiesa atstāj spēkā LM akcionāra Segala mantas apķīlājumu | liepajniekiem.lv, twitter doesn’t find images with error: “Failed to get a proxied URL for the image”, but image exist, maybe its problem with CloudFlare?

nathan_quaye · 2013-08-29T22:11:12.000Z

Hi guys,

I’m getting the same “Failed to get a proxied URL for the image” error.

I’m just testing the feature out as I think it’s pretty good so any help that could be provided would be great.

Thanks,