Downloaded images contain the text "URI signature match failed" - An issue with the links reddit provides about reddid

[ipaqmaster]

I solved this by performing to following change to index.js's downloadImage function located at the bottom of the file:

Original:

function downloadImage (url, filename, callback) {
  var urlfixed = url.replace("&", "&");
  url = urlfixed
  request(url)
  .pipe(fs.createWriteStream(filename))
  .on('close', () => {
    console.log(url, chalk.green(' downloaded successfully'))
    callback(null, filename)
  })
}

New: including a new change at the top of the function.

function downloadImage (url, filename, callback) {
  var urlfixed = url.replace("&", "&");
  url = urlfixed
  request(url)
  .pipe(fs.createWriteStream(filename))
  .on('close', () => {
    console.log(url, chalk.green(' downloaded successfully'))
    callback(null, filename)
  })
}

By adding

  var urlfixed = url.replace("&", "&");`
`  url = urlfixed

..to the top of the function I'm able to remove the &'s from the download task. Trash fix I know, but it seems to be doing the trick.

This script was working earlier and has not been updated in a little while so I imagine this was the doing of reddit's engineers for whichever reason.