Steps to reproduce: 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 Copy the image Paste that to Anki. Notice the 403 error and the…

See Revert "Prefer image pastes over HTML in the editor (#2856)" · ankitects/anki@174a2e7 · GitHub [image] trgk: Notice the 403 error Are you on a vpn?

Oh, this had already been discussed. No, I’m not behind any VPN. It seems like some sites don’t like Anki’s user agent or so.

This thread is also related: [image] Pasting image from clipboard seems to download the image anyway Help I’m 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 A…

Fix copied image not imported locally on 403 error. main ← phu54321:fix/chrome_image_paste_403 opened 11:19AM - 10 Jun 25 UTC (UTC) [image] phu5…

For record, I think anki should download the original image whenever possible instead of using the clipboard data, as it would allow… Animated GIF Image with transparency (may not be respected on the clipboard) Lossless embedding of non-jpg images.

https://ankiweb.net/shared/info/934503660 Created an addon for the issue. Likely the PR won’t be merged cause Anki’s undergoing some serious redesign on the card editor.

You might want to insert the image as a reference to keep an image up-to-date. But this shouldn’t be default behavior, so I agree with you. I’m not well into this particular issue, but perhaps the insert-as-reference is already a fallback when image download isn’t working? After all, it’s strange t…

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.

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

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vaibhav June 10, 2025, 11:19am 4

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

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