I am trying to set up Discourse as a headless API server. I need to show the full text of the topic and the images in my custom-built landing page. I am able to get the full text with always_include_topic_excerpts setting. However, the excerpt doesn’t have images. Digging a bit deeper, found out th…

Hi Kris, thanks for responding. I need the full topic text when I hit /latest.json. By default, it only returns the topic title with the exception of some posts (announcements?) where it also returns an excerpt. With the always_include_topic_excerts setting on, I am able to get the full text except …

Created a draft PR to get an early feedback: FEATURE: Add site settings for images and links in excerpts by nrchandan · Pull Request #9799 · discourse/discourse · GitHub

I don’t really understand but would like to discuss, either remove all links and images or add them?

Hi @Bcat , let me try to get a before and after screenshot shortly.

Thanks for the draft PR @chandan.gupta but we strip images from excerpts for a reason [image] Markdown appears in topic lists for pinned topics with image at top Bug See screenshot - when I pin a topic to the top of topic lists that has an image at the to…

Thanks @Johani , not a problem. That makes sense. So this is doable via plugins as well, correct?

You could do it from a plugin, but this is a messy change, you are fighting with core defaults so it will have unintended results.

@sam would it be a complex plugin to return the posts[0].raw or posts[0].cooked along with /latest.json? This way, we wouldn’t need to piggyback on “excerpt”, and it would also satisfy our needs. Could you point me to any reference to implement this? I understand that this would involve a lot more d…

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awesomerobot (Kris) May 16, 2020, 2:11am 2

Is there a reason you’re trying to pull the full topic text via the excerpt? You should be able to get the full cooked content, which includes images:

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