Do not fail completely if oEmbed autodiscovery fails. (#15092)

Previously if an autodiscovered oEmbed request failed (e.g. the
oEmbed endpoint is down or does not exist) then the entire URL
preview would fail. Instead we now return everything we can, even
if this additional request fails.

1 files changed, 23 insertions, 10 deletions

diff --git a/synapse/rest/media/v1/preview_url_resource.py b/synapse/rest/media/v1/preview_url_resource.py
index a8f6fd6b35..4a594ab9d8 100644
--- a/synapse/rest/media/v1/preview_url_resource.py
+++ b/synapse/rest/media/v1/preview_url_resource.py
@@ -163,6 +163,10 @@ class PreviewUrlResource(DirectServeJsonResource):
        7. Stores the result in the database cache.
     4. Returns the result.
 
+    If any additional requests (e.g. from oEmbed autodiscovery, step 5.3 or
+    image thumbnailing, step 5.4 or 6.4) fails then the URL preview as a whole
+    does not fail. As much information as possible is returned.
+
     The in-memory cache expires after 1 hour.
 
     Expired entries in the database cache (and their associated media files) are
@@ -364,16 +368,25 @@ class PreviewUrlResource(DirectServeJsonResource):
                 oembed_url = self._oembed.autodiscover_from_html(tree)
                 og_from_oembed: JsonDict = {}
                 if oembed_url:
-                    oembed_info = await self._handle_url(
-                        oembed_url, user, allow_data_urls=True
-                    )
-                    (
-                        og_from_oembed,
-                        author_name,
-                        expiration_ms,
-                    ) = await self._handle_oembed_response(
-                        url, oembed_info, expiration_ms
-                    )
+                    try:
+                        oembed_info = await self._handle_url(
+                            oembed_url, user, allow_data_urls=True
+                        )
+                    except Exception as e:
+                        # Fetching the oEmbed info failed, don't block the entire URL preview.
+                        logger.warning(
+                            "oEmbed fetch failed during URL preview: %s errored with %s",
+                            oembed_url,
+                            e,
+                        )
+                    else:
+                        (
+                            og_from_oembed,
+                            author_name,
+                            expiration_ms,
+                        ) = await self._handle_oembed_response(
+                            url, oembed_info, expiration_ms
+                        )
 
                 # Parse Open Graph information from the HTML in case the oEmbed
                 # response failed or is incomplete.