fix: more aggressive user agent for URL preview #1434

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This pull request adds a more aggressive user agent for URL preview, fixing many loading errors. It also adds an admin command to clear stuck and broken URL data (one command per URL currently).

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adding "facebookexternalhit" alongside "embedbot" fixes many errors, such as YouTube Music's:
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add admin command to clear URL stuck and broken data (per URL currently)
Jade approved these changes 2026-02-21 19:49:15 +00:00
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LGTM 👍

LGTM 👍
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nex approved these changes 2026-02-21 23:15:17 +00:00
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Looks fine to me. Won't block on the review comment if you don't fancy implementing the additional command, just let me know.

Looks fine to me. Won't block on the review comment if you don't fancy implementing the additional command, just let me know.
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#[admin_command]
pub(super) async fn delete_url_preview(&self, url: String) -> Result {
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If we're adding a command to delete specific previews, I think a "purge all" command would probably also be appreciated.

If we're adding a command to delete specific previews, I think a "purge all" command would probably also be appreciated.
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(purge all should be done by all-caches anyway via the service trait, but sometimes people want to be more specific - and should be just an --all option)

(purge all should be done by all-caches anyway via the service trait, but sometimes people want to be more specific - and should be just an --all option)
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added --all flag

added `--all` flag
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ginger approved these changes 2026-02-23 15:24:09 +00:00
ginger merged commit 526d862296 into main 2026-02-23 15:24:15 +00:00
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