leedo / leedo/noembed

IMDB embed appears to be broken?

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Description

Hello,

I may just be calling the api wrong, but it appears the IMDB noembed may be broken.

All the url's I've tested with return "malformed JSON string, neither tag, array, object, number, string or atom error.

Examples:
https://noembed.com/embed?url=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1386697/
https://noembed.com/embed?url=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt4853102/

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Research direction

Start by reproducing the two listed noembed.com/embed requests with their IMDB URLs and inspect the IMDB source handling that produces the malformed JSON error. Trace the response path for these requests and confirm that both examples return valid embed metadata without the parsing error.

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Assessment

Tech stack
perl
Domain
api, backend
Issue type
Bug
Difficulty
3/5
Estimated time
1-2 days
Activity status
Stale
Clarity
Mostly clear
Newbie friendliness
35/100

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