Inaturalist 504 gateway timeout while testing my api key for MO

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Platform (Android, iOS, Website): Pc

App version number, if a mobile app issue (shown under Settings or About):

Browser, if a website issue (Firefox, Chrome, etc) : Firefox & Chrome giving same 504 message

URLs (aka web addresses) of any relevant observations or pages: https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/moimport

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Description of problem (please provide a set of steps we can use to replicate the issue, and make as many as you need.):

Step 1: Seached how to import MO observations to IN

Step 2: Got an API key from MO typing “Inaturalist” for description of app using api

Step 3: Pasted api in preview your import, and got 505 error

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seems like this happens every once in a while:

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We’re aware of the issue. I can’t estimate when it’ll be fixed, however.

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I’m attempting to use the MushroomObserver import tool to import my observations from MO to iNat and I keep getting a 504 Gateway Timeout after Step 1 and hitting [Test] with my api key entered.

https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/moimport

It seems to be quite similar to this issue:
https://forum.inaturalist.org/t/inaturalist-504-gateway-timeout-while-testing-my-api-key-for-mo/27515

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This is platform-independent issue that has been reported to both Mushroom Observer and to INat support by multiple users.

Description of problem

Step 1: Goto https://www.inaturalist.org/observations/moimport

Step 2: Fill in MO API Key

Step 3: Click “Test”

RESULT: 504 Gateway Time-out nginx

I hope the following will expedite a fix.
PS: It’s not safe to assume that the MO image has extension jpg.

MO Webmaster webmaster@mushroomobserver.org
Oct 24, 2021, 8:19:42 PM
to help@inaturalist.org, mo-developers

Dear iNat:

I poked around a bit in the iNat code. I don’t completely understand what’s going on, but I see some issues here:

image_url = "[https://mushroomobserver.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/orig/#{image[:id]}.jpg](https://mushroomobserver.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com/orig/#%7Bimage[:id]%7D.jpg)"

https://github.com/inaturalist/inaturalist/blob/88c24041fe0df7f81fe1d04914ecdba29c319f43/app/models/mushroom_observer_import_flow_task.rb#L293

and maybe here:

image_url = "[https://images.mushroomobserver.org/orig/#{image[:id]}.jpg](https://images.mushroomobserver.org/orig/#%7Bimage[:id]%7D.jpg)"

https://github.com/inaturalist/inaturalist/blob/88c24041fe0df7f81fe1d04914ecdba29c319f43/app/models/mushroom_observer_import_flow_task.rb#L303

To get an MO image, external users should use a URL in the form:

https://mushroomobserver.org/images/<*size*>/<*id*>.<*ext*>

Other URLs are not guaranteed to be stable and may break at some point down the line.

Line 293 above will certainly cause an error; we recently moved our image store from Digital Ocean to Google Cloud Platform. Digital Ocean’s response looks like:

<Error>
<Code>AccessDenied</Code>
<BucketName>mushroomobserver</BucketName>
<RequestId>tx00000000000001bc68251-0061761d48-67e7768-nyc3a</RequestId>
<HostId>67e7768-nyc3a-nyc</HostId>
</Error>

I don’t know how the iNat code interprets that.

Line 303 above should not cause a timeout, but may cause a 404.

Please let us know if you think there’s a different problem, or if there’s something we can do to help isolate/debug the issue.

Again, it would help to know the details of the request that’s causing the 504 gateway timeout.

Best regards,

– Joe Cohen
MO Dev Team

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PPS: The Digital Ocean response to line 293 has changed since 24-Oct, because MO has since completely deleted the DO bucket. The response now looks like this:

<Error>
<Code>BucketDeleted</Code>
<Message>This bucket is temporarily reserved for administrative purposes.</Message>
</Error>
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(consolidated several bug reports into this one)

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Hi @tiwane - could you point me to the GitHub issue for this? I wasn’t able to find it. If it doesn’t exist, should we create it? I’m interested in submitting a PR but the contribution guidelines strongly urges not to issue PRs without specific issues.

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As far as I know there isn’t a GH issue for this current problem.

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OK - I’ve created an issue for it here: https://github.com/inaturalist/inaturalist/issues/3331 - If someone will review and approve or escalate the issue, I’d be happy to submit a PR.

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I’ve been experiencing this issue as well. I’ve commented on the github about this as well.

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I have been having this issue as well. I have a whole lot really high resolution photos on Mushroom Observer and hope I won’t have to add them all to iNaturalist manually, that would take weeks.