Android: YouTube thumbnail images are not shown (they are on website)

[louis-pre]

Android 11 App version 11.0.1

YouTube thumbnail images are left blank in the Android app's feed whereas they are displayed in the web interface. I can reproduce this behavior with every YouTube channel I have setup.

See screenshots: Web:

Android:

[samuelclay]

Hey did you mean to assign this to me? Based on the web screenshot, I believe the API is sending an image_url. Here's a sample feed you can test out:

https://www.newsblur.com/site/8053687/zack-freedmans-youtube-videos

[louis-pre]

I have spent some time trying to debug it on my side, it seems like changing com.newsblur.domain.Story.YT_THUMB_PRE from http://img.youtube.com/vi/ to https://img.youtube.com/vi/ (HTTP to HTTPS) is enough to resolve it.

~I managed to test it using the list layout but couldn't test with the grid layout because it is crashing on my side.~ ~My guess is that the GitHub codebase does not include the 11.0.1 fixes mentioned in the Play Store's changelogs.~

edit: I realized later that those changes are not on the master branch, sorry 😅

[sictiru]

@louis-pre Yes that is the cause, Android API 28+ expects only secure connections via HTTPS.

[tesar-tech]

Hello. I have the exact same issue on my Android ver13 and app version 13.1.2. I am new user, so I don't know if this issue was there also on older versions.

I tried multiple feeds, multiple sizes of grid and thumbnail. Just cannot make it work. For non-youtube feeds it works, on web for yt it also works.

Thanks for the support, I am available to provide more info if needed!

[mbhkoay]

Appreciate if the changes can be pushed to the android app.

@louis-pre Yes that is the cause, Android API 28+ expects only secure connections via HTTPS.

[sictiru]

@samuelclay Could these thumbnails be parsed on the backend with https or is there a way the url can be mapped to the secure images in the story response?

[samuelclay]

The thumbnails come from the story text, so the url should match one of the secure image urls.

        {
            "story_hash": "8053687:c0c973",
            "story_tags": [],
            "story_date": "2024-02-13 16:00:18",
            "story_timestamp": "1707840018",
            "story_authors": "Zack Freedman",
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            },

[sictiru]

OK I found the issue on the client side. I'll close the ticket once it's live in the next release.

[VlaK0r]

OK I found the issue on the client side. I'll close the ticket once it's live in the next release.

Hello! Please tell me how did you manage to solve the problem?

[sictiru]

@VlaK0r The url sniff wasn't using https. You can check the commit above. Fix live in v13.2.3