Links in scene details on stashdb?

I find it somewhat common that a scene description on a studio website has a link that would be nice to preserve in stashdb. In particular there are three cases that I have encountered:

  • “Last time (performer) was here …” (links to specific previous scene)
  • “This is continued from part 1” (links to part 1)
  • “This specific bondage item we used is from here” (link to vendor)

For the first two it should probably ideally link to the stashdb version of the scene.

Anyway, as far as I know there is no such link support. What do yall think of adding such support in some way? I believe edit comments support markdown already, so this could be added (at least for links) to scene descriptions.

It might make more sense to instead edit the scraper to include links, otherwise this might be better suited for MOT as locally it’s possible

(what’s MOT?)

Yes, the guideline says to use the original description. How would you modify the scraper to include links – just as text in the description?

MOT refers to the Ministry of Truth which is for proposing and discussing changes to the guidelines for StashDB

As far as I know StashDB is the only metadata database whose guidelines specify that we keep exact titles and descriptions, up to and including typos and encoding errors, where both TPDB and IAFD for example will normalize them, i.e. changing them to fit a stricter ASCII subset, stripping/changing quotation marks and removing emojis. One of the things we are unable to preserve are links in the text, which will be stripped out by every scraper I know of.

I don’t think adding arbitrary link support is going to be easy even if it would allow us to store more accurate metadata: the challenge of course is that we gather data from a variety of sources and we can’t expect all of them to be easily converted to for example Markdown, in fact some of them might use symbols that have semantic meaning in Markdown without intending for them to be rendered like that such as * or #

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