Error Received - INVALID_DOCUMENT - Unable to read uri

[Haxen2000]

Description of the bug

I have two different stories I've attempted to publish to Apple. One has worked and one gives me an error.

There has been an error with the Apple News API: INVALID_DOCUMENT - Unable to read uri [https://www.wabe.org/wp/app/uploads/2025/02/Black-and-White-Brown-Halftone-Paper-Collage-News-and-Politics-Podcast-YouTube-Banner-1000-x-1000-px-375x375.png]

That part of the debug JSON is identical on both stories, so I'm not sure why this error is happening (happy to provide the entire JSON if needed).

{ "role": "photo", "URL": "https://www.wabe.org/wp/app/uploads/2025/02/Black-and-White-Brown-Halftone-Paper-Collage-News-and-Politics-Podcast-YouTube-Banner-1000-x-1000-px-375x375.png", "layout": "full-width-image" },

Is there a way to validate the JSON or get a better understanding of this error?

Steps To Reproduce

1. Open a published article in WP
2. Click the Apple News icon
3. Click the blue Publish button
4. Inconsistently receive an error

Additional Information

No response

[kevinfodness]

What it's telling you is that the image at https://www.wabe.org/wp/app/uploads/2025/02/Black-and-White-Brown-Halftone-Paper-Collage-News-and-Politics-Podcast-YouTube-Banner-1000-x-1000-px-375x375.png doesn't exist. If you try to access that image in a browser, as I did just now, it gives you a "not found" error.

If that image does actually exist but you are blocking access to it in some way, you're going to need to undo that or modify it in some way so that Apple's servers can access the image.

If that image doesn't exist, you'll need to update the part of your article that's pointing to it to either fix the URL or remove it.

[Haxen2000]

Thank you for changing the type. I wasn't sure what to do there!

Here's a link to the article that works: https://apple.news/AbswOHrcwTlmY_5IaIyt8Rg. I just download the article from News Publisher and that JSON has "URL":"https:\/\/www.wabe.org\/app\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Black-and-White-Brown-Halftone-Paper-Collage-News-and-Politics-Podcast-YouTube-Banner-1000-x-1000-px-375x375.png". Not .org**/wp/**app. I'll try to debug why it's adding this in the URL.

[kevinfodness]

Probably there's logic somewhere that is rewriting those URLs for use on the front-end. This plugin works by sending article content to Apple when an article is published on the back-end, and if there is code that only executes on the front-end, then it won't work properly. So if the logic that's rewriting those URLs only happens if the view is not an admin request, then it won't work correctly.

[Haxen2000]

I'm getting back to work on this after a vacation and being pulled on to other projects. I see our
WordPress Address (URL) is set to https://www.wabe.org/wp. Our test envs are also set up this way, and don't seem to have this bug. I'm not sure if this is the issue, but wanted to let you know I've started debugging again.

Edit: I think this might be because we are using absolute paths for images in test and relative in prod, but not sure yet.