Author Topic: Suggestions on Links Preview Mod  (Read 1478 times)

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« on: November 24, 2022, 02:02:02 AM »

Hello, I would like to buy this mod and therefore did some testing on it. Now I have two suggestions:

1st there seems to be an issue with country domains. When I post a link from amazon.com it works just fine, but once I paste in one with a German .de domain it is not parsed.

More important what I did not like is how it handles links to posts within the very forum. IP Board handles this in a nice way, giving a preview of the post inlcudingf its attachment(s). See attached sample screenshot.

Your mod will unfortunately only give the subject and posters name. I think it would be great to also post the content of the post like IP Board does.

Do you think this could be done?

Thank you


« Reply #1 on: November 27, 2022, 01:28:47 AM »

Hi,

Amazon seems to have measures in place to reject bots and I've been trying to work around it. The German site seems to be more strict about it. Fortunately, I think I have a way around that now.

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More important what I did not like is how it handles links to posts within the very forum. IP Board handles this in a nice way, giving a preview of the post inlcudingf its attachment(s). See attached sample screenshot.

Your mod will unfortunately only give the subject and posters name. I think it would be great to also post the content of the post like IP Board does.

Thanks for sharing this neat idea.

So it looks like a link to another thread on that same forum with the attached image embedded into the post.

Can definitely be done.


« Reply #2 on: November 29, 2022, 04:26:10 PM »

Once the mod has a neater forum post embeding for internal links, I am an immediate buyer!


« Reply #3 on: November 30, 2022, 01:01:17 AM »

 I'll post an update in thread once I get that done.


« Reply #4 on: December 01, 2022, 06:48:46 AM »

Great. Once it is done I will sure buy this mod!


« Reply #5 on: December 05, 2022, 08:11:29 PM »

Do you have an estimate when they changes could be included?


« Reply #6 on: January 09, 2023, 06:37:05 AM »

Any updates as I am ready to buy the mod. Thank you


« Reply #7 on: March 01, 2023, 01:32:27 PM »

`Hello, any news on this? Thank you


« Reply #8 on: March 08, 2023, 04:54:44 AM »

Attached is an image showing how smf-packs SEO influenced this. The image thumbnail should probably be the first attachment of the topic.


« Reply #9 on: March 08, 2023, 08:42:43 PM »

Two screenshots that show this new integration in action are attached below.

  • The image is the first attachment in the topic post
  • The description is broken down into either individual sentences if such structures are found, or individual words. Then it is reconstructed piecemeal until the limit of 120 characters.

« Reply #10 on: March 20, 2023, 03:40:03 PM »

I have uploaded the update

v2.1.0 (2023-03-20)

New Features

  • Add ability to generate previews for topics

Bug fixes

  • New code that should fix fetching from German Amazon (grumbles)

« Reply #11 on: March 31, 2023, 03:32:32 PM »

Thank you for the changes. I have just bought this great mod!