There was an error when parsing the URL (Insert pic links into posts)

mattgphoto · June 3, 2019, 8:15pm

What’s your URL? https://ghost.purrbox.org
What version of Ghost are you using? 2.22.3
What configuration? Ghost, Docker
What browser? All
What steps could someone else take to reproduce the issue you’re having? Create a post. From the + icon, select ‘Other’. Enter a link to a screenshot, such as this one: https://pics.purrbox.org/images/99273672657b0971d8c32907830299a7.png
Notice the error parsing URL: https://m.purrbox.org/2WrvTa8

Not sure where to go from here, would be nice to use my selfhosted picture host for inserting pictures. The only way I can insert pictures is clicking to select an image in the post.

mattgphoto · June 1, 2019, 9:24am

Bump. Any assistance possible for this?

gargol · June 3, 2019, 8:15pm

Hi @mattgphoto With custom embeds, you can only use provider URLs that support oEmbed format. Ghost uses this package internally to do oEmbed parsing - https://www.npmjs.com/package/oembed-parser, and the list of supported providers can be found in this section - https://www.npmjs.com/package/oembed-parser#provider-list

Unfortunately, it’s not possible to set an image URL from the UI in current versions of Ghost as explained here:

mattgphoto · June 3, 2019, 8:15pm

@gargol thank you very much! I’ll keep that in mind and will just embed images in via html at this point