Photobucket no longer supporting 3rd party hosting

[andy626]

I'm sure most of you have heard the good news with Photobucket not allowing 3rd party hosting anymore!

Has there been any discussions on here about it, I can't seem to find anything?

Does anyone have any ideas on how to solve this issue at all, It's ruined a big part of a lot of history on my forum.

Would it be possible to run an attachment script to replace http://i1023.photobucket.com/albums/...AGENAME123.JPG

to yourforum.com/images/user/imagename123.jpg

Sounds a bit far fetched but if members were to download their entire photobucket accounts and upload to your forum and somehow run a find and replace script possible?

Thanks for anyone who can help!

[Paul M]

This might do what you want, I use a modified version of it on my forum.

https://vborg.vbsupport.ru/showthread.php?t=253309

vb.org also uses a slightly modified version.

[andy626]

Wow, thanks but I wish I had of known about that before Photobucket stopped the 3rd party hosting.

All of the photobucket images on forums now look like the below image, so I'm not sure if it will be pull the photos or just pull thousands of the new redirected image below.

Wish I had of had that plugin earlier!!!

[Dave]

The plugin Paul linked you to might do the job but it's possible that it requires some modifications because of Photobucket's changes.

[andy626]

Thanks for your help Paul and Dave, unfortunately doesn't look good for that mod with what PB have already done.

--------------- Added [DATE]1499137146[/DATE] at [TIME]1499137146[/TIME] ---------------

Ok, so ran that mod isolated to a test forum and it works great, thank you!

Unfortunately it just imports the 3rd party PB image and not the actual image!

Back to my original question, does anyone know of how one could get around this Photobucket issue. As per my original post, is it possible to run an attachment find and replace?

[Kane@airrifle]

<a href="https://chevereto.com/community/threads/photobucket-debacle-and-file-naming.8691/" target="_blank">https://chevereto.com/community/thre...e-naming.8691/</a>

[Paul M]

How does that link help ?

[andy626]

Thanks Kane, thats definitely a solution!

Going to be a nightmare trying to get all of the members to download their albums!

[Kane@airrifle]

Originally Posted by Paul M

How does that link help ?

The image importer mod no longer works on Photobucket image embeds - it either imports the dreaded P500 thumbnail or simply your preset a image not found settings. Everybody who runs image heavy forums is scrambling for work arounds and solutions. The Chevereto link is but one such.

[andy626]

Thanks Kane, just letting you know it was a success...