Handling Users which don't exist

[FireMasterK]

[2020-09-08 06:54:15,630] ERROR in app: Exception on /u/QuackityHQ [GET]
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/flask/app.py", line 2447, in wsgi_app
    response = self.full_dispatch_request()
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/flask/app.py", line 1952, in full_dispatch_request
    rv = self.handle_user_exception(e)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/flask/app.py", line 1821, in handle_user_exception
    reraise(exc_type, exc_value, tb)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/flask/_compat.py", line 39, in reraise
    raise value
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/flask/app.py", line 1950, in full_dispatch_request
    rv = self.dispatch_request()
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/flask/app.py", line 1936, in dispatch_request
    return self.view_functions[rule.endpoint](**req.view_args)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.8/site-packages/flask_login/utils.py", line 272, in decorated_view
    return func(*args, **kwargs)
  File "/usr/src/app/app/routes.py", line 176, in u
    user = getTwitterUserInfo(username)
  File "/usr/src/app/app/routes.py", line 584, in getTwitterUserInfo
    response = urllib.request.urlopen('{instance}{user}'.format(instance=NITTERINSTANCE, user=username)).read()
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.8/urllib/request.py", line 222, in urlopen
    return opener.open(url, data, timeout)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.8/urllib/request.py", line 531, in open
    response = meth(req, response)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.8/urllib/request.py", line 640, in http_response
    response = self.parent.error(
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.8/urllib/request.py", line 569, in error
    return self._call_chain(*args)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.8/urllib/request.py", line 502, in _call_chain
    result = func(*args)
  File "/usr/local/lib/python3.8/urllib/request.py", line 649, in http_error_default
    raise HTTPError(req.full_url, code, msg, hdrs, fp)
urllib.error.HTTPError: HTTP Error 404: Not Found

Maybe handle this by an error page that says the user doesn't exist?

[pluja]

How did you get this error?

[FireMasterK]

https://yotter.xyz/u/QuackityHQ should reproduce it.

[pluja]

Oh, ok. I will work on it. Thanks!