[Question] modifying feed image urls

[vosian]

Hello, I'd like to modify the image urls in the feeds themselves, I just want to run them through a compression service, what I want to do just requires adding a string before and after the image url which hopefully isn't too hard to do. But I don't know where I should look in the code to try and get this changed so I'd be thankful for some guidance.

[ghost]

If you are always using the image proxy you could simply change imageURL in ui/proxy.go:41. Otherwise template/functions.go:67 aswell.

This does not modify the entries stored in the database but only their representation on the website. Is this what you want?

[vosian]

As I never programmed in go, I went with the first option as it seemed simpler, it's hard to know if the proxy is beign applied due tot he link obfuscation miniflux does, however, I think it's working due to the quality loss. Now I need to test if programs that use miniflux as a backend use the proxy or directly go with the database information.

[ghost]

By default the image proxy is only being applied to http images (without SSL), that's the "obfuscation" you see (it's just the base64 of the image url). If you want to always use the image proxy, run with the PROXY_IMAGES=all environment variable. See https://miniflux.app/docs/configuration.html

[vosian]

Thank you, although it seems that programs that use miniflux as backend work directly with the database, which shouldn't be surprising I guess, but I now I need to find if there's some way to modify the database, I'm guessing this would have to be done at the steps where feeds are parsed and might not be straightforward.