XF 2.2 Only Youtube links, not videos showing after vBulletin import

[BubbaLovesCheese]

Hi,

So I imported my vBulletin 4 to Xenforo 2.2. After the import, all the media links still shows as links, not as preview videos. Like this:



After closer inspection, I see they imported with the [URL] [/URL] code surrounding it.



What can I do to get the video preview to show?

It's a test site, so I can either do something to prepare pre-import, or something after.

Thanks.

 

[BubbaLovesCheese]

Okay, so I found this resource to find/replace text

Post Content Find / Replace

This is a direct port of the original Post Content Find / Replace add-on for XF 1.x. You may wish to search the original resource discussion for solutions to common tasks performed with this add-on.

xenforo.com

I guess my questions is:

1. Is find/replace still the best way to deal with this issue?
2. Is replacing [URL] with [MEDIA] still the best solution?
3. What if I strip away all instances of [URL] and [/URL], will xenforo replace them accordingly?

Any updated info would be great.
Thanks!

 

[Paul B]

1. Yes.
2. Yes - it's necessary.
3. No - the media tags won't automatically be added.

 

[BubbaLovesCheese]

Thanks. Just a follow up to #3

What if I strip away all instances of [URL] and [/URL] from my vBulletin database prior to import? Will [media] tags (or the appropriate tags) be added during import?

 

[Paul B]

Will [media] tags (or the appropriate tags) be added during import?

No.

 

[Mr Lucky]

What if I strip away all instances of [URL] and [/URL] from my vBulletin database prior to import? Will [media] tags (or the appropriate tags) be added during import?

Maybe I'm stating the obvious, but there will be instances of [URL] and [/URL] that are in regard to normal text links etc, so many would need to remain as is. It's only the youtube ones you'd want to target.

 

[Paul B]

The add-on uses regex so that's possible.

 

[BubbaLovesCheese]

Maybe I'm stating the obvious, but there will be instances of [URL] and [/URL] that are in regard to normal text links etc, so many would need to remain as is. It's only the youtube ones you'd want to target.

True. Hence my question.... Let's assume I have these links :

[URL]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FdPghlJTpb8[/URL] <= video
[URL]https://www.website.com/[/URL] <= website
[URL]https://www.imageshack.com/i/p3q5d7vaj[/URL] <= image

And I stripped away the URL for every link (either before or after import), the question was, would Xenforo be able to determine the first link was a video, the second a website, and the third was an image, and would it apply the appropriate tags?

The answer was no, unfortunately. But I did find a solution here :

Post Content Find / Replace

FYI, the "related link" to version 1.0.0 links right back to this version ;)

xenforo.com

So, problem solved.... for now. ;-)