persistent HTTPError from search_images('bird photos')

[mayerber]

I'm running the Is it a bird? notebook (first class) and getting HTTPError when searching bird photos in Step 1: Download images of birds and non-birds. The cell recommends retrying upon a JSON error, though retries are not helping for the past couple days. Traceback follows:

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HTTPError                                 Traceback (most recent call last)
/tmp/ipykernel_17/2432147335.py in <module>
      1 #NB: `search_images` depends on duckduckgo.com, which doesn't always return correct responses.
      2 #    If you get a JSON error, just try running it again (it may take a couple of tries).
----> 3 urls = search_images('bird photos', max_images=1)
      4 urls[0]

/tmp/ipykernel_17/1717929076.py in search_images(term, max_images)
      4 def search_images(term, max_images=30):
      5     print(f"Searching for '{term}'")
----> 6     return L(ddg_images(term, max_results=max_images)).itemgot('image')

/opt/conda/lib/python3.7/site-packages/duckduckgo_search/compat.py in ddg_images(keywords, region, safesearch, time, size, color, type_image, layout, license_image, max_results, page, output, download)
     80         type_image=type_image,
     81         layout=layout,
---> 82         license_image=license_image,
     83     ):
     84         results.append(r)

/opt/conda/lib/python3.7/site-packages/duckduckgo_search/duckduckgo_search.py in images(self, keywords, region, safesearch, timelimit, size, color, type_image, layout, license_image)
    403         assert keywords, "keywords is mandatory"
    404 
--> 405         vqd = self._get_vqd(keywords)
    406         assert vqd, "error in getting vqd"
    407 

/opt/conda/lib/python3.7/site-packages/duckduckgo_search/duckduckgo_search.py in _get_vqd(self, keywords)
     93     def _get_vqd(self, keywords: str) -> Optional[str]:
     94         """Get vqd value for a search query."""
---> 95         resp = self._get_url("POST", "https://duckduckgo.com/", data={"q": keywords})
     96         if resp:
     97             for c1, c2 in (

/opt/conda/lib/python3.7/site-packages/duckduckgo_search/duckduckgo_search.py in _get_url(self, method, url, **kwargs)
     87                 logger.warning(f"_get_url() {url} {type(ex).__name__} {ex}")
     88                 if i >= 2 or "418" in str(ex):
---> 89                     raise ex
     90             sleep(3)
     91         return None

/opt/conda/lib/python3.7/site-packages/duckduckgo_search/duckduckgo_search.py in _get_url(self, method, url, **kwargs)
     80                 )
     81                 if self._is_500_in_url(str(resp.url)) or resp.status_code == 202:
---> 82                     raise httpx._exceptions.HTTPError("")
     83                 resp.raise_for_status()
     84                 if resp.status_code == 200:

HTTPError:

[hikeeba]

I'm getting the same issue. Always errors.

[hikeeba]

Just tried this again and adjusted the notebook environment setting to Always use latest environment instead of Pin to original environment (2022-03-17) and it seems to be working with that change.

[hikeeba]

[pranavhonrao9]

Just tried this again and adjusted the notebook environment setting to Always use latest environment instead of Pin to original environment (2022-03-17) and it seems to be working with that change.

Thanks, this helped!

[ukd1]

Also getting this; and the latest env makes it break on ddg images.

Removing the ddg lib, and adding this fix for broken code fixed it for me.