linkify mxc:// urls as links to the media repo of the HS you're connected to

[t3chguy]

[lampholder]

So if you render a mxc:// url in the timeline it will be automatically reconciled into a (clickable, copy+pastable) media repo https:// url for you HS?

[t3chguy]

That is what I want to suggest yes

[joepie91]

I'd say that this is actually also partly a bug, not just a feature request:

As there's no explicit MXC URL parsing, it's being caught by the generic URL linkifier, which misinterprets it as a protocol-relative (ie. usually HTTPS) URL, and produces a broken link.

[grinapo]

So, indeed,
mxc://matrix.org/xYADvTIVsAuDwmEfjLjTxPLJ
shall become
<server url>/_matrix/media/r0/download/<locator>
like on my local server:
https://matrix.grin.hu:8448/_matrix/media/r0/download/matrix.org/xYADvTIVsAuDwmEfjLjTxPLJ

[t3chguy]

If only it was easy with the existing linkification library :D

Blocked on nfrasser/linkifyjs#194 or us finding a new linkification lib

[grinapo]

Blocked on Soapbox/linkifyjs#194 or us finding a new linkification lib

Noticing that this issue is not touched since 2017 I ain't particularly hopeful.

This SO answer lists a few viable alternatives. Autolinker (demo) seems particularly nice with its custom replacement function.

[t3chguy]

Not easy to move off linkifyjs, as that's what is used to linkify room aliases, mxid references and community references. Autolinker has special handlers for @grinapo style mentions and #hashtags but not generic to extend to MXID, room aliases and community ids.