[nodebb-plugin-link-preview] Rich Embeds and Link Previews

[crazycells]

I do not know if it is possible, but I still think it would be very cool to have a pdf previews in the forum, so users do not have to leave the forum to check the pdf documents...

[darkpollo]

@julian Just to confirm that this plugin did not come bundled when I installed it.
I found and installed and activated with no issue, but it was not part of the basic install.

[julian]

@darkpollo you're right, the plugin isn't bundled with new installs

[benyto]

@julian works fine, thanks
would be nice to have links opened in new tab or configurable at least

[julian]

thanks for commenting @benyto . The plugin follows NodeBB's behaviour in not modifying anchor target. The end user can ctrl-click the link to open in a new tab, shift-click to open in new window, etc.

[Paweł]

I installed the plugin via dashboard plugins.

NodeBB v3.10.3

I did a rebuild, the plugin appears, but saving settings does not work.
In addition, I have this error in the console: “admin.min.js?v=o50k63atqko:1 error loading admin/plugins/link-preview
Error: Cannot find module './plugins/link-preview'”

What did I do wrong?

[nhl.pl]

What kind of hosting? Some container based and one click installs do not support updating plugins from dashboard. Please try to do the same thing from command line.

[Paweł]

I have VPS, and other plugins works fine, I have only problem with this. Save button dosen't work in plugin settigns.
/admin/plugins/link-preview

When I click "Save changes"/"Zapisz zmiany" - nothing happen, and after refresh page changes on checkboxes are gone.

[julian]

@Paweł hello again, when you run ./nodebb build, do you see any errors?

[Paweł]

Hello! I have one error, and the build is successfully

2024-12-02T14:00:40.772Z [4567/43946] - info: [build] admin control panel styles  build completed in 5.442sec
2024-12-02T14:00:40.773Z [4567/43946] - info: [build]                  templates  build started
2024-12-02T14:00:42.294Z [4567/43946] - info: [build]                  templates  build completed in 1.521sec
2024-12-02T14:00:42.296Z [4567/43946] - info: [build]                  languages  build started
2024-12-02T14:00:47.214Z [4567/43946] - info: [build]                  languages  build completed in 4.918sec
2024-12-02T14:00:47.216Z [4567/43946] - info: [build] Bundling with Webpack.
315 assets
788 modules

ERROR in ./build/public/scripts-client.js 1960:5
Module parse failed: Unexpected token (1960:5)
You may need an appropriate loader to handle this file type, currently no loaders are configured to process this file. See https://webpack.js.org/concepts#loaders
| });
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> ;CC0 1.0 Universal
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| Statement of Purpose

webpack 5.94.0 compiled with 1 error in 19554 ms
2024-12-02T14:01:07.713Z [4567/43946] - info: [build] Asset compilation successful. Completed in 41.304sec.

[baris]

@Paweł check your plugins, looks like one of them is included a non-js file in the scripts block of its plugin.json

[Paweł]

@baris How should I find it in the admin panel or in the source code on the server?

Edit:
Ok I found the problem! grep -r ";cc0 1.0 universal" - there was problem with depreacted plugin nodebb-plugin-html5videoplayer - I removed this and know everythong works fine!

Thanks a lot for your quick help! This is my first time using NodeBB.

[baris]

@Paweł no problem, yeah you can grep for stuff in the node_modules directory to find the culprit. Or you can disable plugins one by one. ./nodebb plugins command shows active plugins.

[sketchucation]

If I try to update I get this...

But my nodebb is running the latest.

Any tips?

[sketchucation]

Ok, so after a clean manual install we can't get this plugin to work...

Now it is telling us that the previous v1.... is the latest?

[julian]

@sketchucation you should be able to install the latest version from the command line

[sketchucation]

@julian we did that

we are running latest NodeBB version and latest Preview plugin

It does not display previews for us unfortunately.

If we disabled the plugin it will not leave the active list and it then displays as latest

Is there paid support available?

[julian]

@sketchucation support is available with our hosting plans. Community installs would be supported through this forum

Perhaps there is an issue with the package manager. I will have to look into it.

[julian]

@sketchucation if you've installed v2.0.13, then that is the latest version. Make sure that you run ./nodebb build after activating it.

Are you able to access the settings page for that plugin?

Lastly, what do you mean when you say you have installed the latest version of NodeBB? Please let me know the version number. v3.12.1

[julian]

@sketchucation okay, so nbbpm reports this:

The plugin author suggests that you install v1.3.3 for your copy of NodeBB v3.12.1

This is correct. For your version of NodeBB, you are supposed to install v1.3.3. The 2.x branch of link-preview is meant for NodeBB v4.