NodeBB Twitter / X embeds

[DownPW]

@phenomlab said in NodeBB Twitter / X embeds:

Just looking at this again, and it seems that SaxX in the URL is written as SaxX - was that intentional?

I don’t know. I guess but that doesn’t explain that working here and not on my forum… hmm

URL:

https://x.com/_SaxX_/status/1850458923481825567

Itt seems on my forum the “_” character was delete in the URL (Don’t know why) :

[phenomlab]

@DownPW Can you PM me the link to prod so I can have a look?

[phenomlab]

@DownPW There appears to be a space inserted in the URL?

Note, after the / where it is formatted as / SaxX/

[DownPW]

hmm not on my screen :

but “_” dissapear

[phenomlab]

@DownPW Can you grant my login temporary admin?

[phenomlab]

@DownPW I see the issue. The URL has underscores present

This basically means that the composer sees this as Markdown and is attempting to render it as such. It’s not a bug in the X embed code. I may be able to work around it though.

[DownPW]

@phenomlab said in NodeBB Twitter / X embeds:

@DownPW I see the issue. The URL has underscores present

This basically means that the composer sees this as Markdown and is attempting to render it as such. It’s not a bug in the X embed code. I may be able to work around it though.

yep I tell you that here :

@DownPW said in NodeBB Twitter / X embeds:

URL:

Itt seems on my forum the “_” character was delete in the URL (Don’t know why) :

[phenomlab]

@DownPW Yes. Can you grant me admin temporarily for your site?

[phenomlab]

@DownPW this should work now with the below commit

https://github.com/phenomlab/nodebb-twitter-embeds/blob/main/embeds.js

The reason is that markdown processes the URL and replaces _ with <em> meaning the tweet can no longer be rendered. The quick “fix” would be to escape the underscore characters, so _SaxX_ becomes \_SaxX\_ but that really is ugly, and places the responsibility on the OP, or an admin to go in and makes those changes afterwards.

This new code effectively changes

into

https://x.com/\_SaxX\_/status/1850458923481825567?mx=20

It then removes the <em></em> tags, and implodes the URL so the Tweet Parser can read it. In a nutshell, you land up with this

https://x.com/SaxX/status/1850458923481825567

[DownPW]

@phenomlab said in NodeBB Twitter / X embeds:

@DownPW this should work now with the below commit

https://github.com/phenomlab/nodebb-twitter-embeds/blob/main/embeds.js

The reason is that markdown processes the URL and replaces _ with <em> meaning the tweet can no longer be rendered. The quick “fix” would be to escape the underscore characters, so _SaxX_ becomes \_SaxX\_ but that really is ugly, and places the responsibility on the OP, or an admin to go in and makes those changes afterwards.

This new code effectively changes

into

https://x.com/\_SaxX\_/status/1850458923481825567?mx=20

It then removes the <em></em> tags, and implodes the URL so the Tweet Parser can read it. In a nutshell, you land up with this

https://x.com/SaxX/status/1850458923481825567

That’s Fix works great