From 9165039abfe4899ae9b42f5f4e89db1f0b9ab599 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Norielle Cruz <nogats07@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 5 Aug 2023 06:57:31 +0800
Subject: [PATCH] refactor: add url preloading before actual download

---
 bot/plugins/webshot.py | 5 +++++
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+)

diff --git a/bot/plugins/webshot.py b/bot/plugins/webshot.py
index 45e93ad..4684c3d 100644
--- a/bot/plugins/webshot.py
+++ b/bot/plugins/webshot.py
@@ -29,6 +29,11 @@ class WebshotPlugin(Plugin):
     async def execute(self, function_name, **kwargs) -> Dict:
         try:
             image_url = f'https://image.thum.io/get/maxAge/12/width/720/{kwargs["url"]}'
+            
+            # preload url first
+            requests.get(image_url)
+
+            # download the actual image
             response = requests.get(image_url, timeout=30)
 
             if response.status_code == 200: