Missing image/wrong url in "/game" result

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#1  Edited By kurka

I am playing around with the API and get the following result from the /game result. The image urls for "Far Cry 4" I get in the response are:

image = {

"icon_url" = "http://static.giantbomb.com/uploads/square_avatar/0/3699/2633124-far+cry+4.jpg";

"medium_url" = "http://static.giantbomb.com/uploads/scale_medium/0/3699/2633124-far+cry+4.jpg";

"screen_url" = "http://static.giantbomb.com/uploads/screen_medium/0/3699/2633124-far+cry+4.jpg";

"small_url" = "http://static.giantbomb.com/uploads/scale_small/0/3699/2633124-far+cry+4.jpg";

"super_url" = "http://static.giantbomb.com/uploads/scale_large/0/3699/2633124-far+cry+4.jpg";

"thumb_url" = "http://static.giantbomb.com/uploads/scale_avatar/0/3699/2633124-far+cry+4.jpg";

"tiny_url" = "http://static.giantbomb.com/uploads/square_mini/0/3699/2633124-far+cry+4.jpg";

};

I try to use the "super_url", but this image does not exist. Perhaps becasue it says "scale_large" instead of "scale_super" in the URL? When I browse the images on the website, I see that this image exists: http://static.giantbomb.com/uploads/scale_super/0/3699/2633124-far+cry+4.jpg

Is this a bug or am I doing something wrong?

By the way - http://static.giantbomb.com/uploads/screen_medium/0/3699/2633124-far+cry+4.jpg which is given in the "screen_url" result does not exist either.

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Am I the only one that have had any issues with this? I find the api difficult to use for my purpose when the url points to non-existing images.

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No you're not the only one with the issue.

There are so many things in the responses that either don't exist or contain relative links and html formatting that I may completely abort my application.

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There's also the issue of links pointing to ".png" instead of ".jpg". Fun stuff! Icon URLs are the most reliable, if you're counting on fixed sizes.

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I really hope this will be fixed, but if this error goes a long way back then the chances are probably low. For now I keep my fingers crossed as I haven't found any other game API that is as good as this.