Change embedded hotlinked images to attachments

[Brandon Sheley]

I've seen mods for other forums that would take any images not hosted on your site, and upload them as an attachment to prevent hotlinking.
Is there a mod for xenforo that does this?

For example if a user uploaded an image to photobucket, I'd like a cron to run that would grab that image, upload it to my forum via attachments and replace the image in the post with the one hosted on my forum.

Thanks

 

[Adam Howard]

Yes, please

 

[Tis-food]

Please too

 

[Digital Doctor]

I have suggested this before.
My suggestion was to use the hotlinked image, but if that expires or is removed, then use the downloaded one.

 

[Puntocom]

This is very useful.

 

[Mouth]

I have suggested this before.
My suggestion was to use the hotlinked image, but if that expires or is removed, then use the downloaded one.

Unless the site hosting the image check it's logs and see's requests originating from your site, and you are the 'opposition', so they replace the image with one that denigrates your site or invites everyone to come to their site. Just saying .......

 

[Brandon Sheley]

I would love knowing that all images posted on my site, were hosted by my site.

I hope we can get some developer input on this, maybe an idea on what it would cost if it came to that?

 

[Mouth]

Not as clean as an XF integrated solution, but there's a few GPL image uploading scripts around that you could put on your site and tell members to use that instead?

 

[Brandon Sheley]

Not as clean as an XF integrated solution, but there's a few GPL image uploading scripts around that you could put on your site and tell members to use that instead?

I've thought about that, but I really don't want the members to do anything other then what they are doing now.

 

[topcat]

This would be great, I have recently made a request got something similar,

Would be even better if all current images could be uploaded too

 

[Biker]

You could run into some issues if the image is copyrighted. Linking back to the original image as part of the post is generally acceptable, but downloading it for upload to your server could indeed land you in some hot water.

 

[topcat]

Usually if sites are bothered they will watermark images. Or disable right click.

Most images are taken from google images anyway

In any case is already possible to upload an image as an attachment, this just makes it easier

 

[whyweprotest]

I've already asked someone to commission this addon, no quote yet -- but interested to hear who's up for splitting costs. Some conditions: addon is released free and open on xenforo. That's all

 

[topcat]

I'd help out, obviously dependant on how much

Also would need to know more details of the exact addon

 

[RandallC]

If you run on cpanel you can use http://docs.cpanel.net/twiki/bin/view/AllDocumentation/CpanelDocs/HotLinkProtection

If not then there should be something in .htaccess, http://www.hongkiat.com/blog/smarter-way-to-prevent-image-hotlinking-with-htaccess/

Because if the images is hosted on other sites its not hot linking from you.


Good Luck Guys!

 

[erich37]

similar thread:

http://xenforo.com/community/threads/importing-external-images.46556/

 

[Forsaken]

similar thread:

http://xenforo.com/community/threads/importing-external-images.46556/

This thread is older than the one you linked.

 

[Mick West]

I have written an add-on that automatically rehosts external images and re-writes the links to post to the local files.

http://xenforo.com/community/resources/metamirror.2117/

 

[Puntocom]

Is it working well? I need this but I'm afraid to destroy data and get no notice.

 

[Brent W]

I have it working on a near 1 million post forum with many external links with no problem.