Images excluded from html to mobiledoc output

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Aloha. So, I’m trying to extract approximately 9000 old blog and news posts from an overcustomized drupal 7 site to be custom imported to a custom ghost setup. All is almost well. They’re being parsed and imported and look good. Almost.

All references to the images are being removed by the @tryghost/html-to-mobiledoc parser. So I set up a quick listener doing nothing but interpreting HTML to try and test and… well…

const converter = require("@tryghost/html-to-mobiledoc");
const plugins = require("@tryghost/kg-parser-plugins");
const striptags = require('striptags');
const express = require('express');
const bodyParser = require('body-parser');


const app = express();
const port = 1701;
app.use(bodyParser.urlencoded({ extended: true }));

app.post('/', (req, res) => {
  if ( req.body.html ) {
    console.log( 'body received' );
    res.send(
      JSON.stringify( converter.toMobiledoc( req.body.html, { plugins: plugins } ) )
    )
  } else {
    res.status(400).send('must provide html field in the post');
  }
});

app.listen(port, () => {
  console.log(`Mobiledoc converter listening at http://localhost:${port}`)
});

I run that with node in one terminal, and then hit it with posts containing images…

% curl -d 'html="<img src=\"https://i.imgur.com/HVdC8fs.png\">"' -X POST localhost:1701

and get…

{"version":"0.3.1","atoms":[],"cards":[],"markups":[],"sections":[[1,"p",[[0,[],0,"\""],[0,[],0,"\""]]]]}

Basically… image? NOPE. No images for you! I must be doing something wrong. But it’s not clear what. It just rejects my effort with a big smile. Heh.

Insights?