Imgur automatic link parsing is broken

[kishy]

Hi there,
Unsure if it's XenForo natively or a plugin, but something on this forum is trying to automatically parse Imgur links to embed a thumbnail on the user's behalf, but Imgur has changed something on their end which is breaking the automatic parsing.

So for example if I want to paste the following link:

https://imgur.com/a/2025-02-08-parts-galore-yec1TKM

It will look as below:

https://imgur.com/a/2025

(above this text)

Which is broken.
The workaround a user can do to bypass this is to make a simple text link such as this text right here to that URL, and it won't get automatically parsed.
However, if the text link is the URL itself, it gets parsed and breaks.

My suggestion/request is to locate a setting, if available, to turn off this automatic link parsing and to do that. The trade-off with this is that it might add a step for users who wish to embed only a single image as I'm not sure if that is working the same way; I've always just used the imgur-provided bbcode to embed single images.

Thanks for keeping things running smoothly!

 

[alwaysFlOoReD]

@Jim Oaks
@ryan

 

[ryan]

I'm surprised it's taken this long - imgur has been doing this for a long time to prevent sites from using their images. I have not messed with the image parsing before, but I assume this would mean ending all image parsing, not just links from imgur

 

[ryan]

Found it Jim - just give me a thumbs up if you'd like me to turn it off

 

[kishy]

After a little more consideration I'm not sure imgur broke this. It might have something to do with the fact that https is involved.
e.g. browser loaded TRS using TRS' SSL certificate
the embed may either be trying to load imgur content using HTTP (which imgur might disallow), or might try to load it using HTTPS but not like something about the certificate

Either way, broken is broken. I appreciate you checking on it.

 

[SenorNoob]

IDK what happened or was done to fix it, but everything is working for me. I use Imgur to host all my pics. I checked my build thread on mobile in incognito mode and pics loaded fine.

 

[kishy]

IDK what happened or was done to fix it, but everything is working for me. I use Imgur to host all my pics. I checked my build thread on mobile in incognito mode and pics loaded fine.

Individual photo embedding continues to work.
It's album linking that is broken, and the problem is that XenForo is automatically turning the link (e.g. http imgur dot whatever slash a slash ...) into an embedded album rather than just leaving the text link as clickable text.

 

[Jim Oaks]

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The link you posted is for this car, but your link went to the page, not the picture. I got the link for the picture and used the forums insert image button and inserted the image using the link.

 

[kishy]

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The link you posted is for this car, but your link went to the page, not the picture. I got the link for the picture and used the forums insert image button and inserted the image using the link.

The link is not to that car. It's to an album with some 60ish photos, which does include that car.

https://imgur.com/a/2025-02-08-parts-galore-yec1TKM

imgur /a links are albums, not individual photos. Those links are the ones getting broken by the automatic parsing. It isn't clear to me that the automatic parsing even does anything useful anyway, since imgur does provide the embed bbcode (or you can use the insert image button as you did), so as best I can tell the feature provides no value and is just broken.

 

[Jim Oaks]

I don't screw around with other image hosting sites. I figure people would either upload their photo here or post the photo using the image url like I did above. Proxy settings isn't anything we've had to deal with before. I did go in and find the settings and checked the box to allow them.