/anim returning more than just GIFs

[Jenn Spencer]

Sometime in the past day or two, we noticed that /anim was returning any image type, not just GIFs. This is slowly ruining the morale of our team. Please help.

[Robert Bartlett]

I cannot upvote this strongly enough. Our animated cat chat is just not the same T_T

[Nick Bagley]

Same issue here!

[bryan pedlar]

Bring back our animated happiness! My team can't work this way!

[Brockton Roth]

Same

[Nathan Heaps]

I was bugged multiple times about this today

[Robert Bergman]

Sorry for the delay everyone. I will try to follow up on this soon.

[Robert Bergman]

I should add that /gif also searches for animated gifs, using Giphy instead of Google. I had both /anim and /gif in Sassy for a reason of course (lots of people preferred the /anim results), so I can understand if that's not a good solution for you. If you weren't aware of it though, you might give it a try until /anim gets updated.

[bryan pedlar]

Thanks for looking into this!

[Jenn Spencer]

We've been using /gif has a stop-gap at the moment, but we definitely prefer the wider net/harrowing randomness of /anim.

[Eddie Hooper]

Day 8: Nothing makes us happy anymore. I tried to eat lunch at my desk, but I couldn't taste it. It hasn't stopped raining for days. Starting to wonder if /anim ever existed. Did /anim leave a part of itself with us? I like to think so.

We are all /anim.

[Jenn Spencer]

I wish I could upvote a comment.

[JT Turner]

I cannot stress this strongly enough. Please clear your calendars to work on this problem. giphy just isn't the same. Googling gifs wastes precious company time. I burned my finger on coffee this morning and didn't even feel anything.

[Nikhil Verma]

Yes we are extremely depressed over here at Badoo. Can you please fix anim for us? Productivity has plummeted now and people are going mental.

[Eddie Hooper]

^^^

[Robert Bergman]

Deployed the PR that forces /anim to return only gifs, in the hopes that it will yield more animated results. This isn't a great long term solution, but should make things less bad. Will investigate a longer term solution when time allows.

[Jenn Spencer]

Thank you (and Ross)! I've already been spamming chatrooms in a wild giddy /anim spree.

[Eddie Hooper]

On this day, my frustration has not been properly animated.

[charley heffer]

There is a package available on npm that will check if a gif is animated or not. I'm not sure if it will work in this case, and it probably wouldn't be the nicest solution, but it may be more less bad.

https://www.npmjs.com/package/animated-gif-detector

[dh dh]

This is because google changed their image search API. This outlines the issue extensively. https://github.com/hubot-scripts/hubot-google-images/issues/10