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UNOFFICIAL attempt at tracking Thingiverse website issues
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QR codes in attribution file rely on internal Google API #17

Open DrLex0 opened 5 years ago

DrLex0 commented 5 years ago

Thingiverse is relying on some internal feature of a Google API to generate QR codes inside Thing attribution HTML files that are included in the ZIP download. If Google decides to change this API or block external access, these QR codes will break, even for previously downloaded files.

Possible solutions: either use a standalone javascript QR code generator embedded in the downloaded file, or generate the QR code image on the server and embed it as an image in the ZIP file.

DrLex0 commented 4 years ago

New or recently edited Things no longer have this HTML file in their ZIP file. All older things however still have it.