[nodebb-plugin-imgbed] Image Embedding with only a URL

[Chris]

@BDHarrington7 excited for the downloading linked images. If an imgur api is specified does it move it over to imgur?

[Bri]

@Chris Not yet, soon!

[Bri]

@baris I did find the problem, it was stupid. I was staying up too late when I introduced the bug that caused the crash.

[Bri]

Also, is there a global debug flag that you can reference on the server side?

[julian]

@BDHarrington7 -- start nodebb using ./nodebb dev. This will set the NODE_ENV environment variable to "development"

[Scuzz]

Isn't this possible with markdown anyway?

[Schamper]

@Scuzz said:

Isn't this possible with markdown anyway?

Ye, you should be able to embed an image using ![alt](link)
Like so:

[Bri]

Right, and the advantage that the markdown has is that the link doesn't need to have a specific format of matching the pattern of http*jpg|gif|png etc. I could change it to parse looking for img tags, and downloading those URLs

[A Former User]

@BDHarrington7 said:

@Chris Not yet, soon!

Has there been any further updates on this?

[psychobunny]

Oh this is cool, I never realized that you actually fetch the image and save a copy to your server. So potentially you could do something like GitHub does (ie. host all images on your own CDN), so you don't have to worry about serving non-secure images from random sites when you're on SSL

[Bri]

@psychobunny said:

...so you don't have to worry about serving non-secure images from random sites when you're on SSL

Yep, exactly. Well that and I didn't like that an image takedown would make my forum look crappy.

@Albus are you referring to the upload capability or the imgurl capability?

[Punkbob]

@BDHarrington7 Is the imgur upload still something you are looking at, or are you done with the plugin for now?

[A Former User]

@Albus are you referring to the upload capability or the imgurl capability?

Sorry for late reply - life happens and I'm just getting another chance to do some testing with NodeBB.
I'm referring to the auto-imgur upload which @Punkbob has just referenced.

[Bri]

I hadn't had the chance to look into any sort of integration with imgur, so sorry about that! If anyone wants to take a stab at that for now I would be paying attention to any pull requests

[a_5mith]

Webm support Plox.

[ankitpr89]

any update on integration with imgur upload through api function?

[bitcalc]

I found a bug, but when I headed over to GitHub the files are totally different so I'll tell you here...

Valid URL: http://oyster.ignimgs.com/wordpress/stg.ign.com/2014/09/TWDS5_2Sht_FM3_2.jpg?q=fhye

the above should work, but it doesn't due to the dots in stg.ign.com and the query string, I've changed the library.js file to be more liberal:

regexStr = '<a href="(https?://.+\.(' + extensions.join('|') + ')).*">[^<]*<\/a>';

Should anyone else have this problem, then that'll work for you!

[kevin]

Can anyone get this to work on 6.0?

[Bri]

@kevin I'll be fixing it up this week(end)

[kevin]

@BDHarrington7 you are beautiful man.