Using Images From URLs

[josephh]

Hi @s31,

This is an issue with the CORS policy.

You can read more about it on those previous threads:

Fetch API cannot load file

Ah, CORS, so we meet again. When trying to access resources (especially in any browser other than Firefox) in a developer-y way, you will often also be doing things that look remarkably like what bad actors do who spoof websites, steal identities, pass viruses, run bot-nets etc – one aspect of which is sometimes called “cross-site scripting,” although suspicious crossings can also be local to a client. CORS (Cross-Origin Resource Sharing) is one of the security measures that prevents you from …

API POST error - not sure what's causing it

Hi, If I run the code in the p5 web editor, I get this error : TypeError {stack: ""} This is somehow cryptic and I don’t really know what is the formatting behind this. However the httpPost function is using the fetch function behind the scenes and I tried running that in a new tab (in Firefox): fetch('http://colormind.io/api/', {method: 'POST', body: postData}) .then(data => data.json()) .then(json => console.log(json)) .catch(err => console.log(err)); And effectively there…

EDIT:

as @mnse said, it’s the url that is not the right one, it’s explained in this SO thread how you can get a direct link to an Imgur image:

How to get direct link of images on Imgur?