Save Content Decode error when saving image

[MaazBinMusa]

I added this line in the config.py

save_content: Union[bool, str] = "image,media,script,imageset"

Ran 1 site. Looked up the hash for an image from the http_response table and tried getting the image using plyvel.

import plyvel

db  = plyvel.DB('../datadir/leveldb')

img = db.get(b'8337212354871836e6763a41e615916c89bac5b3f1f0adf60ba43c7c806e1015')

with open("check.png","wb") as file:
	file.write(img)

db.close()

This saves an error image. So I added a line from an answer I found on stackoverflow

import plyvel

db  = plyvel.DB('../datadir/leveldb')

img = db.get(b'8337212354871836e6763a41e615916c89bac5b3f1f0adf60ba43c7c806e1015')

img_bytes = img.decode('utf8','ignore').encode('latin-1')

with open("check.png","wb") as file:
	file.write(img_bytes)

db.close()

However this keeps giving me unicodedecodeerror.

[vringar]

Hey,
I don't think decoding the image will do what you want.

We have this test to check that content saving actually works:
https://github.com/mozilla/OpenWPM/blob/6742ebbec896a568459fd039ea41e027fac75a55/test/test_http_instrumentation.py#L957-L992

Which basically does the same thing you were doing at first, so I don't have any idea why it wouldn't work.
Are you sure about the type of file this is? Or could you be using the wrong file extension?

[MaazBinMusa]

It turned out to be a different error. I was trying this on a virtual machine. Which seemed to have been the issue. Otherwise you are right the test method / my first method it working fine.

Thanks. closing this