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Thank you for this app. Would there be a way to specify a custom thumbnail image so that when viewing URL files in the gallery it's easier to see which URL is which? In my use case, I store links to YouTube videos on my Nextcloud instance and it would be nice to be able to specify each video's YouTube thumbnail.

Hey 👋 There are currently no plans to implement this, as I first have to find the time to port the app to the new Files API for NC 28 😓 I think it's a nice idea, but have no idea how we'd implement this 🤔 We'd need to reach out to each service to fetch the favorite icon and then store it somewhere somehow? Do you have any ideas?

We'd need to reach out to each service to fetch the favorite icon and then store it somewhere somehow? Do you have any ideas?

I don't mean to populate the thumbnail automatically: only that the user would be able to specify the URL of the thumbnail manually. In order to populate the thumbnail automatically it would be indeed a lot of trial and error so that's why I didn't suggest it.

Hm... Okay :-)

Are you thinking about saving a public URL? 🤔 And you'd want to manually apply the URL to all your link files? 😅

Hm... Okay :-)

Are you thinking about saving a public URL? 🤔 And you'd want to manually apply the URL to all your link files? 😅

Yes, in the same way that some file explorers allow you to set metadata to individual files

Sounds great 😊 But I'm not really sure how to do this in Nextlcoud 🤔

Maybe if you could get in contact with someone from the Nextcloud "Files" app team (probably the core team), they could help you with that 🙂

I could probably store the metadata in the file itself, but then we'd need to load each single file to display the thumbnail in the files list.

I understand. You can close this issue if it sounds cumbersome :-)

It does, but that doesn't mean it's a bad idea... 😄 Thanks for your understanding. I will leave it open for a while, maybe someone will turn up to implement it 😉