In-app text and markdown publishing and editing

Currently markdown is well supported only if you prepare it via an external editor and upload a .md file directly.

It would be much better UX if a user could:

1. Create a new post via the existing markdown editor directly in the app
2. Edit previous text or markdown posts directly in the app
3. Embed other LBRY content directly in the posts (add a custom button or parsing for lbry.tv embeds)

This will likely require somewhat separate code for lbry.tv and LBRY Desktop.

[btzr-io]

“streaming_url”: “(str) url to stream the file using range requests” http://localhost:5280/stream/63004f5578b24360b3c67cffa552d07a4a334375afb7972c8beb47b835a1cec86b7208dc17addf852377e6afb78b8b81

Lbry.tv has a similar endpoint for this. https://lbry.tech/api/sdk#get

[btzr-io]

Does the API provide other file options?

Idk, I don’t think so

Alternatively, is there a standard way to write to temp file on the browser?

Yes, there are different ways to achieve this, there is a new web api specifically for this but is still experimental, you can create workspaces, folders and files etc…

You can also build a blob from a string:

new Blob(["text..."]], {type: 'text/plain'}); 

is there an API to query the claim data as a string if the type is “text”?

Yes you can just use the stream api from the lbry sdk, and fetch the stream data

Idk where are docs of the stream api…

https://github.com/lbryio/lbry-sdk/issues/1634