Backend: Better method for determining image thumbnail (instead of just using the first <img> url)

[Splike]

Feed used: https://anto-finnstark.artstation.com/rss

[samuelclay]

This one's always hard. I wonder if the emoji is coming from the Text view or the Feed view.

The way it works now is that it uses the Feed view's first image unless there's a Text view, in which case it uses that view's first image. I believe it also checks for the largest image, but my memory seems to think it is only the Text view.

So for this feed it looks like you're looking at the first image, and the Text view doesn't load. That's why and the fix it to have every image get its size looked up, but that would be a huuuuge amount of work on the backend.

And I'm not sure it can be done easily on the front-end because that would require loading every image even when you're looking at one of the single story views (List view, Grid view, single story mode).

It's just too hard to do 100% right. I wish I knew of a better way to figure out the right image url yo preview.

[Splike]

I took a look at the feed, and smileys look like this

<img class="emoji" alt="smiley" src="https://cdn.artstation.com/mailer/emoji/smiley.png" />

If the first image read has class=emoji, then skip that image and try to read the next one.

Another possibility might be to read the file name.