I understand that there is a way to decorate posts after cooking with api.decorateCooked(). Is there a similar method for decorating topic list items or the topic list?

What are you trying to achieve?

I’m making a plugin that incidentally interacts with https://meta.discourse.org/t/topic-list-previews/41630 . My end goal is to display these http://bl.ocks.org/ in a post (which I have working), but I also want to display the thumbnail in the topic-item. I overrode ExcerptParser.rb methods to allow…

[image] jgujgu: My hope is to grab the data within the allowed span tag and render the thumbnail after it uses this data to make an ajax request. Could you break this down a bit more into discrete steps? I assume you’ve looked at how TLP creates and uses thumbnails in the topic list?

Yes I have indeed looked over the TLP code. Unfortunately, particular to how I render the blocks (for example Choropleth · GitHub ), the only cooked data that resides in the database is an html tag, <div class="gist" data-user="mbostock" data-gist="4060606"></div> For decorating posts, I’m current…

I reckon the best way to achieve what you’re trying to do is add a method that listens for the post created event on the server. See a similar method in my ratings plugin here . In this method you should Parse the cooked html for what you need. Use the parsed content to get your data. Save …

Your suggestion is quite excellent. I will use your approach when parsing for the thumbnail info. I will admit, using ajax in contexts like this is a janky work around. :sweat_smile:

Decorate topic list with jquery?

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angus (Angus McLeod) December 7, 2016, 9:26pm 4

Could you break this down a bit more into discrete steps? I assume you’ve looked at how TLP creates and uses thumbnails in the topic list?

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Decorate topic list with jquery?

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