Upload images from Github .md file using Discourse API

[marielavd (Mariela Dimitrova)]

Hi all,

I use a Node.js workflow to connect Github repository and Discourse through Discourse API.
Every time someone pushes .md file in a repository automatically Discourse topic is created using POST request https://{defaultHost}/posts.json or if the topic already exits - I just update it with PUT request https://{defaultHost}/posts/{id}.json.

I have a problem with the images - there is couple of ways to include image in Github .md file. The following are working fine and the images are uploaded to Discourse:

• if the image is hosted on https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/
• if the image is uploaded directly to the repo and you append a ?raw=true at the end of the image link
  https://github.com/[username]/[reponame]/blob/[branch]/image.jpg?raw=true

but the following two are not working:

• if relative link is used
  relative/path/to/img.jpg
  
• the ?raw=true part is missing
  https://github.com/[username]/[reponame]/blob/[branch]/image.jpg
  

Is there a way to ensure that all the images from the .md file will be uploaded to Discourse?

[pfaffman (Jay Pfaffman)]

If your script is pushing the raw md from github to discourse then you’ll need to have your script find those relative links and add the github domain.