Pasting some image from Chrome won't import the image to the media database

Anki Development
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Steps to reproduce:

  1. Go to this URL
    https://www.researchgate.net/publication/372533503/figure/fig1/AS:11431281270911835@1723283890520/Carotid-sinus-and-carotid-body-The-carotid-sinus-nerve-a-branch-of-the-glossopharyngeal.jpg

  2. Copy the image

  3. Paste that to Anki.

  4. Notice the 403 error and the resulting image. src attribute pointing to remote URL, rather than downloading the media.

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Gonna make a PR for this. Leaving this post as a reminder.

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See Revert "Prefer image pastes over HTML in the editor (#2856)" Ā· ankitects/anki@174a2e7 Ā· GitHub

Are you on a vpn?

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Oh, this had already been discussed.

No, Iā€™m not behind any VPN. It seems like some sites donā€™t like Ankiā€™s user agent or so.

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This thread is also related:

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Posted a quick PR draft. This pr conserves filename and alt when the download succeeds.

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For record, I think anki should download the original image whenever possible instead of using the clipboard data, as it would allowā€¦

  • Animated GIF
  • Image with transparency (may not be respected on the clipboard)
  • Lossless embedding of non-jpg images.