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Linked pic is an example. I had to uncheck "Use pic8.co" to get the post to submit as pic8 didn't register it as a valid image url.

There is nothing wrong with the link and there are no invalid characters, but it keeps giving the "Invalid url entered" error.

I tried manually altering it to one of the multiple archive domains. I also tried the archive.today link.

Image saved from:

https://poal.co/s/News/675871 https://www.gpb.org/news/2023/10/23/antisemitic-flyers-found-in-brookhaven https://archive.today/W8CRS

Here is the image on different archive.today domains:

Pic8 just seems to refuse accepting images from the archive site itself and does not seem to be an issue with the images or their links (such as pic8 having that issue in the past of not accepting images with an underscore, hyphen or space in the file name).

This has been going on for quite some time and I've just been saving the images and eventually uploading them direct to pic8 to get a pic8 link. I finally decided it wasn't a temporary issue and that it would require being reported to then get corrected.

EDIT: For anyone wanting the pic8 link to this image, here it is from using its direct image link instead of its archive image link:

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Linked pic is an example. I had to uncheck "Use pic8.co" to get the post to submit as pic8 didn't register it as a valid image url. There is nothing wrong with the link and there are no invalid characters, but it keeps giving the "Invalid url entered" error. I tried manually altering it to one of the multiple archive domains. I also tried the archive.today link. Image saved from: >https://poal.co/s/News/675871 >https://www.gpb.org/news/2023/10/23/antisemitic-flyers-found-in-brookhaven >https://archive.today/W8CRS Here is the image on different archive.today domains: - .PH: https://archive.ph/W8CRS/b77746a5465fd40f72086eaea2c131762693cb51.jpg - .VN: https://archive.vn/W8CRS/b77746a5465fd40f72086eaea2c131762693cb51.jpg - .TODAY: https://archive.today/W8CRS/b77746a5465fd40f72086eaea2c131762693cb51.jpg Pic8 just seems to refuse accepting images from the archive site itself and does not seem to be an issue with the images or their links (such as pic8 having that issue in the past of not accepting images with an underscore, hyphen or space in the file name). This has been going on for quite some time and I've just been saving the images and eventually uploading them direct to pic8 to get a pic8 link. I finally decided it wasn't a temporary issue and that it would require being reported to then get corrected. --- EDIT: For anyone wanting the pic8 link to this image, here it is from using its direct image link instead of its archive image link: - https://pic8.co/sh/mYfLNH.jpeg

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[–] • 1 pt 1y (edited 1y)

Probably due to archive.today using re-captcha style DDoS protection.

It can cause issues with grabbing image links from certain source IP addresses.

Seems that, if one tried to grab this image(archive.today) via cli or curl, archive.today will return an empty response.

TL;DR: it's failing because archive.today is blocking image scraping.

[–] • 1 pt 1y

Thank you for taking the time to explain the cause of the issue to me. If I am not able to save it locally and later upload it direct to pic8, I'll try dropping its archive url onto another hosting site to see if that works and then try putting that host's link into pic8.

Thank you again.

[–] • 1 pt 1y

You can copy the direct link of the image and use that to upload to pic8 as well

Eg. https://www.gpb.org/sites/default/files/styles/flexheight/public/2023-10/screen-shot-2023-10-22-at-4.07.33-pm.jpg?itok=hK5CXXyr

[–] • 1 pt 1y (edited 1y)

That's a great idea. Thank you for recommending that as what to try/do in the future. I'll inspect the page to get the source image link instead of resorting to trying multi-stage submitting for times when I can't save>upload direct.

EDIT: For anyone wanting the pic8 link to this image, here it is from using its direct image link instead of its archive image link: