Failed to get a proxied URL for the image

alysonwonderlan · 2013-07-16T14:02:53.000Z

I am continuing to receive the “Failed to get a proxied URL for the image.” message as well, when I’m not receiving the “Server error, please try again” message, that is. I have a robots.txt in website root, so this is not the problem for us.

Here’s the code:

The page I’m trying to set up a card for is http://www.nih.gov/science/brain/index.htm

thebeline · 2013-07-16T15:30:49.000Z

Try to remove the :src. Solved it for me.

alysonwonderlan · 2013-07-16T15:32:12.000Z

With or without, same result. Doesn’t work.

lenkid · 2013-07-19T20:57:00.000Z

Hey, I’m now getting “Failed to get Proxied URL”…

I actually typed in the placeholder URL “http://placekitten.com/250/250”, and pressed okay, and i saw a query in the network logs that 404s:

https://image-proxy-origin.twimg.com/2/proxy.jpg?t=HBiaAWh0dHBzOi8vdmluZXMuczMuYW1hem9uYXdzLmNvbS90aHVtYnMvQzkwRkZENEYtMDY1RS00NzNDLTlDRTQtREU3QzY3OEY0MjhGLTExNDU4LTAwMDAwOEVGNTRDMTc5OEVfMS4wLjYubXA0LmpwZz92ZXJzaW9uSWQ9MkVBOFJCNDFzRXdRWS5NNC4wMExjUzVVd3FtZVJVNGYUsAQUrAIAFgASAA&s=xFj7zhFKyYJA6DoY9lmYCornzjJ25zhQluNvcypbnpM

Base-64ing that ‘t’ query string parameter comes up with:

?https://vines.s3.amazonaws.com/thumbs/C90FFD4F-065E-473C-9CE4-DE7C678F428F-11458-000008EF54C1798E_1.0.6.mp4.jpg?versionId=2EA8RB41sEwQY.M4.00LcS5UwqmeRU4f??

Did you guys hard-code the jpg, and not put in our proper request?

EmmasBadges · 2013-07-23T03:41:34.000Z

me too:

http://emmasbadges.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/i_heart_music_bass_clefs_w.jpg

lyndamagee · 2013-07-24T15:01:01.000Z

I am having the same issue - any idea when this will be fixed?

FSRmag · 2013-07-25T13:22:24.000Z

Same issue for us - example URL with markup: http://www.fsrmagazine.com/growth/top-10-full-service-franchise-opportunities

Failed to get a proxied URL for the image.

zestylemon · 2013-07-25T18:54:01.000Z

I too get the following error message when using the validator:
Failed to get a proxied URL for the image.

My tweets were previously displaying ok with summary card & photo, now summary card & no photo so the problem definitely lies with Twitter.

It would be good to hear from Twitter when they think this issue is likely to be fixed by.

bwigle · 2013-07-25T21:32:37.000Z

Hi - I have been trying to get twitter cards working with no luck.

http://sparkline.motifinvesting.com/housing-recovery-soon/3033

Validate & Apply:
“Server error. Please try again.”

Try cards:
“Failed to get a proxied URL for the image.”

My robots.txt is allowing the twitterbot - http://sparkline.motifinvesting.com/robots.txt
I have a featured image set. - http://sparkline.motifinvesting.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/iStock_000006073940XSmall.jpg

I am using SEO Ultimate to insert my meta tags -

Have others gotten this to work?
Do you see what I am doing incorrectly?

Thanks!

kataly5t · 2013-07-25T22:20:16.000Z

We’re seeing a lot of these same two errors today in testing validation for the basic summary card.

Is the issue still under active investigation? Thanks!

gotwickdotcom · 2013-07-26T14:45:12.000Z

I am having the same error when trying out the card": “Failed to get a proxied URL for the image.”

This is my image url: http://gotwick.com/wp-content/uploads/20130719-082327.jpg

And if I try putting the meta tags on my page to validate, I get this error: “Server error, please try again.”

Any suggestions?

NSeriefilas · 2013-07-26T22:43:53.000Z

I’ve been having the same issue for a week now. Hoping it gets fixed.

GranPC · 2013-07-27T10:51:00.000Z

I’m having the same issue right now. Annoyingly enough, it’s actually requesting the images from my site, so I have no idea what’s wrong.

199.59.148.211 - - [27/Jul/2013:12:50:44 +0200] “GET /robots.txt HTTP/1.1” 200 22 “-” "Twitterbot/1.0" 199.59.148.211 - - [27/Jul/2013:12:50:48 +0200] “GET /stuff/2013-07-26_13-33-58.png HTTP/1.1” 200 820475 “-” “Twitterbot/1.0”

QuotesFriendZ · 2013-07-27T14:48:46.000Z

Sometimes it works and some time it doesn’t.

TravelersLikeMe · 2013-07-30T20:17:16.000Z

I also got the same error. Can you help with my problem please?

Here is the link for my image: http://www.travelerslikeme.org/image/book2.jpg

And I got message saying “Failed to get a proxied URL for the image.”

JogoPro · 2013-07-30T23:39:36.000Z

A blank robots.txt seems to work for me, image showed up in the validation environment. Thanks!

Vestride · 2013-07-31T05:34:00.000Z

Mike Mulligan’s (@thebeline) solution to add a blank robots.txt file worked great for me. Permalink to his comment here: https://dev.twitter.com/discussions/19254?page=1#comment-44697

richarddcrosby · 2013-07-31T09:35:13.000Z

Same issue here - "Failed to get a proxied URL for the image."
However I have successfully validated a card and got domain approval - though this took several attempts.

However when posting links to Twitter - the display of cards is pretty hit and miss.

Sometimes I get no card - others we see the title, description etc. but no image.

Distinct lack of any recent comments from Twitter devs?

PaperShare · 2013-07-31T22:47:48.000Z

We have the same error with Twitter Cards. The Validator sometimes returns an image, but mostly returns an error “Failed to get a proxied URL for the image” Our Twitter Cards are approved, but not appearing up for since June.

archebyte_shout · 2013-08-01T19:29:51.000Z

We are getting this error too, but our robots.txt file is disallowing access to the directory where images are stored and I specify a link to that directory. On a side note, I’ve noticed that a number of people (including us) use an “@” symbol in the meta tags values. I’ve definitely had trouble with this before in other places, so just thought I’d mention it in case it’s also a problem here. I’ll report back if we get around the robots.txt disallow issue.

Ignore the @ symbol mention here, but we’re still getting this issue despite many changes to robots.txt file. Sometimes all green lights from the validator, but no preview image, sometimes this error message.