# Reverse-engineering markdown image urls

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/reverse-engineering-markdown-image-urls/226899
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [May 12, 2022, 9:08pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/reverse-engineering-markdown-image-urls/226899 "2022-05-12T21:08:45Z")
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### Author: ![RGJ](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/rgj/32/523185_2.png) [@RGJ](https://meta.discourse.org/u/RGJ)
#### Post date: [May 12, 2022, 9:42pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/reverse-engineering-markdown-image-urls/226899/2 "2022-05-12T21:42:58Z")

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> [@Converting short upload URLs to full URLs](https://meta.discourse.org/t/converting-short-upload-urls-to-full-urls/131760):
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> I may be barking up the wrong tree here, so apologies if I am - but any pointers very much welcome! There are some threads in our Discourse site which are displayed in part on our main website. Because the cooked version of a post contains all the HTML for the lightbox, which we don’t want on the main site, I’m working with the raw version of a post. One thing that’s tripping me up is the file upload URLs. How can I convert an upload:// URL to a full URL? I’ve tried searching and come across S…

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