download images to git

[milahu]

currently, images have no special handling
gh2md simply uses the original image source

ideally, the user can enable image scraping

• download the images to git
• rewrite the image urls to local paths

also allow special handling of "large" images

• dont download, keep original url (cache the url somewhere to avoid re-downloading)
• compress large JPEGs
• reduce large GIFs to the first frame image
• reduce large video files to a thumbnail image
• allow storing large files in a separate git branch, to keep the main branch small
• allow storing large files in git-lfs (Git Large File Storage)

example avatar

<img src="https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/12958815?v=4" width="50">

example attachment

<img src="https://user-images.githubusercontent.com/12958815/177718602-943af214-24be-4209-82cc-18e6fa5d04c1.jpg" title="Mephistopheles and Margaretta  19th-century wooden double sculpture" width="10%">

dupe #28 says "completed" but its not

[pattacini]

Hi there 👋🏻

First up, this is a nice tool.

Just wanted to share with you all a ruby script I had to write recently to download the images, which can be used in conjunction with gh2md.

This is particularly useful for private repositories, as GH has raised the security bar for accessing the assets.

github.zip