loremflickr.com seems to be behind an authwall now

[mcmxcdev]

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Describe the bug

Not sure if this is a temporary problem on their end or intentional, but we are unable to receive any images back anymore.

In our case, this is a problem when using faker.image.abstract() method.

Minimal reproduction code

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Additional Context

Environment Info

System:
    OS: Linux 6.2 Ubuntu 22.10 22.10 (Kinetic Kudu)
    CPU: (16) x64 AMD Ryzen 7 5800H with Radeon Graphics
    Memory: 8.37 GB / 30.72 GB
    Container: Yes
    Shell: 5.9 - /usr/bin/zsh
  Binaries:
    Node: 18.14.1 - ~/.volta/tools/image/node/18.14.1/bin/node
    npm: 9.3.1 - ~/.volta/tools/image/node/18.14.1/bin/npm
  Browsers:
    Brave Browser: 111.1.49.132
    Chrome: 111.0.5563.146
  npmPackages:
    @faker-js/faker: ^7.6.0 => 7.6.0

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• CJS
• ESM

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pnpm

[EricAgnitsch]

I thought I was going crazy lol. I wonder if this issue needs to be opened https://github.com/xvladqt/Faker-LoremFlickr instead? Hasn't been committed to in 3 years though :/

[Eduardo-Julio]

I thought I was going crazy lol.

Yes, me too, our dev environment is not looking too good.

This is an alternative that seems solid https://picsum.photos/

[ST-DDT]

In the upcoming v8 (currently only available as alpha) we have a new method explicitly for picsum photos.
https://next.fakerjs.dev/api/image.html#urlpicsumphotos

[ST-DDT]

The ruby team has the same issue, so I link their issue here as well, maybe somebody knows what is going on there:

• 401 Unauthorized when using Faker::LoremFlickr faker-ruby/faker#2738

[matthewmayer]

i sent a DM to https://twitter.com/MastaBaba who maintained it to see if this is a deliberate removal or a temporary bug

[matthewmayer]

He replied

Hi. No. The hosting provider was having an issue. The site should be back up and running.

[Shinigami92]

In the upcoming v8 (currently only available as alpha) we have a new method explicitly for picsum photos.

https://next.fakerjs.dev/api/image.html#urlpicsumphotos

Just for the protocol: this won't had worked for the user's need of 'abstract' category
Flickr is our only provider having categories

[matthewmayer]

All the category methods are deprecated though right?

[Shinigami92]

All the category methods are deprecated though right?

There is still urlLoremFlickr

[matthewmayer]

The deprecation message for faker.image.abstract() etc points to faker.image.url() which doesn't support a category.

Maybe we should change that to point to faker.image.urlLoremFlickr instead then?