trgk
June 10, 2025, 9:53am
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Go to this URLhttps://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
Copy the image
Paste that to Anki.
Notice the 403 error and the resulting image. src attribute pointing to remote URL, rather than downloading the media.
Gonna make a PR for this. Leaving this post as a reminder.
llama
June 10, 2025, 11:02am
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trgk
June 10, 2025, 11:05am
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Oh, this had already been discussed.
No, Iām not behind any VPN. It seems like some sites donāt like Ankiās user agent or so.
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This thread is also related:
Iām on Linux, gnome with x11 and when I add images to notes, I often just click on copy image in Chrome, and paste to anki.
[image]
However, I have been noticing Anki freezing for short or long time (seconds) after I paste each image which shouldnāt happen if itās pasted from the clipboard locally.
Moreover, I occasionally got popups of 4xx errors after the freeze (but the image seems to paste successfully anyways. I didnāt bother to inspect the field html when those happened but I suspect Aā¦
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trgk
June 10, 2025, 11:26am
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main ā phu54321:fix/chrome_image_paste_403
opened 11:19AM - 10 Jun 25 UTC
This PR fixes issues described [here](https://forums.ankiweb.net/t/pasting-some-ā¦ image-from-chrome-wont-import-the-image-to-the-media-database/62457). Maybe a partial reimplementation of https://github.com/ankitects/anki/commit/abd8759d502bea5707661d17b06787e395794156
## Problem description
When you copy images on browser, with the image, a html snippet is also copied.
```html
<html>
<body>
<img src="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"/>
</body>
</html>
```
If user tries to paste this to Anki, since HTML handler kicks in ahead of the image handler. When Anki sees `<img src="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"/>`, it tries to download that image, but due to user-agent or other unknown issues it fails with 403 forbidden error. So URL pointing to remote resource persists.
## Bug reproduction step
1. With Chrome browser, go to [this image](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) and copy the image.
3. Paste the image to the Anki.
4. Notice `403` forbidden error and image referenced remotely.
## Suggested solution
When Anki detects a single image paste,
- First, try to download the image. If it works, use that. (preserving attributes like `alt`). I tried to make this procedure as backward-compliant as possible.
- If downloading fails, use the image in the clipboard. This drops other attributes like `alt` as I tried to use existing function `EditorWebView._processImage`. Since download failure rarely happens, I hope this won't make much of the trouble.
Posted a quick PR draft. This pr conserves filename and alt when the download succeeds.
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trgk
June 10, 2025, 11:33am
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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.
trgk
June 14, 2025, 4:47am
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https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/934503660
Created an addon for the issue. Likely the PR wonāt be merged cause Ankiās undergoing some serious redesign on the card editor.
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safely
June 15, 2025, 7:15am
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You might want to insert the image as a reference to keep an image up-to-date. But this shouldnāt be default behavior, so I agree with you. Iām not well into this particular issue, but perhaps the insert-as-reference is already a fallback when image download isnāt working?
trgk
June 15, 2025, 9:12am
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Maybe a different user agent is used when trying to download the image versus when displaying it for the user?
I think so. Anki uses Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; Anki) as a user agent when retrieving a URL, without any referer or so.
