Recent problem with python workflow

[gingerbeardman]

Any ideas why the URL call from Python is failing?

 

Workflow in question: https://www.alfredforum.com/topic/8418-apple-music-search-with-alfred/

 

[14:30:20.771] Search Apple Music[Script Filter] Queuing argument 'charlatans'
[14:30:21.205] Search Apple Music[Script Filter] Script with argv '(null)' finished
[14:30:21.208] ERROR: Search Apple Music[Script Filter] Code 1: Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "album.py", line 33, in <module>
    data = urllib.urlopen(url, params).read()
  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/urllib.py", line 89, in urlopen
    return opener.open(url, data)
  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/urllib.py", line 215, in open
    return getattr(self, name)(url, data)
  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/urllib.py", line 460, in open_https
    data)
  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/urllib.py", line 379, in http_error
    result = method(url, fp, errcode, errmsg, headers, data)
  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/urllib.py", line 673, in http_error_301
    return self.http_error_302(url, fp, errcode, errmsg, headers, data)
  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/urllib.py", line 642, in http_error_302
    headers, data)
  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/urllib.py", line 669, in redirect_internal
    return self.open(newurl)
  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/urllib.py", line 213, in open
    return getattr(self, name)(url)
  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/urllib.py", line 443, in open_https
    h.endheaders(data)
  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/httplib.py", line 1038, in endheaders
    self._send_output(message_body)
  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/httplib.py", line 882, in _send_output
    self.send(msg)
  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/httplib.py", line 844, in send
    self.connect()
  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/httplib.py", line 1255, in connect
    HTTPConnection.connect(self)
  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/httplib.py", line 821, in connect
    self.timeout, self.source_address)
  File "/System/Library/Frameworks/Python.framework/Versions/2.7/lib/python2.7/socket.py", line 557, in create_connection
    for res in getaddrinfo(host, port, 0, SOCK_STREAM):
IOError: [Errno socket error] [Errno 8] nodename nor servname provided, or not known

 

[deanishe]

Apple's server redirects to a different server that isn't responding. The error Python is throwing normally happens when it can't find the server by name (i.e. DNS resolution error). In this case, it might be because the server it's being redirected to doesn't have a hostname (it's just an IP address), but it's using HTTPS, which technically require a hostname, not an IP address.

[gingerbeardman]

Interesting. Thanks!

 

I'd did some manual API queries through my browser and they worked fine. I didn't spot any redirection. 

 

What redirects are you seeing?

[deanishe]

It was redirecting me to https://17.124.168.180/search?term=['my\\+search\\+query']&country=GB&app=music&entity=album&limit=15&media=apple_music, though not consistently.

[gingerbeardman]

Very odd, thanks for looking. I've had to stop using this workflow until I can find time to investigate if there's a workaround.

[gingerbeardman]

This issue was resolved by removing some of the URL query parameters, see workflow thread.