am i correct that onebox previews won’t be generated for links in imported posts? for example, i’m not seeing it in youtube links on a phpbb migration. any pointers for accomplishing this? thanks

read this whole thread for warnings! i will give this a whirl… docker exec discourse-app rake posts:rebake edit: yes, this works thanks for the hint, @Richie

If you rebuild the html on one post as a test, does it get onebox’d? [Screenshot 2023-03-12 at 18.54.09]

it sure does! how can i do it in bulk?

Before you do… [image] How to avoid potential issues when rebaking all posts? Support Hi! Rebaking all posts is sometimes a recommended action for various reasons. After my own experience of a rebake experience that raised issues and seen/foresee other potential others, I’d like to know how they can be avoided. If I rebake my 2M posts, it will trigger too many requests to Youtube and my IP will be blacklisted, preventing Discourse from generating previews. If oneboxes (with titles, thumbnails, excerpts copied in Discourse database - cooked field) original URLs went to be …

Just be careful, we have run in to problems with YouTube, Amazon and others blacklisting our server because we hammered them for onebox details when rebaking hundreds of thousands of posts :confused:

uh oh. i already let it rip. i hope it will be ok? phpbb=# select count(*) from phpbb_posts where (post_text like '%youtu%' or post_text like '%instagr%' or post_text like '%facebook%'); count ------- 1226 (1 row) so there’s a ballpark… you think i’ll be ok? this is from my home IP lol. i’ll read your link and see if there is a way to be more careful next time.

Generate onebox previews for links in imported posts

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Richie (Richie Rich) March 12, 2023, 6:54pm 2

If you rebuild the html on one post as a test, does it get onebox’d?

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Generate onebox previews for links in imported posts

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