Improved peertube description parsing

application/src/Fediverse/Providers/Peertube/parseDescription.ts

@@ -0,0 +1,9 @@
+export const parseDescription = (description:string|null):string => {
+  if (typeof description !== 'string') {
+    return ''
+  }
+  return description.split('\n\n').map(paragraph => {
+    paragraph = paragraph.replace('\n', '</br>\n')
+    return `<p>${paragraph}</p>`
+  }).join('\n')
+}

application/src/Fediverse/Providers/Peertube/retrieveAccounts.ts

@@ -5,6 +5,7 @@ import { z } from 'zod'
 import { avatarSchema } from './Avatar'
 import { parseAvatarUrl } from './parseAvatarUrl'
 import { getDefaultTimeoutMilliseconds } from '../../getDefaultTimeoutMilliseconds'
+import { parseDescription } from './parseDescription'
 
 const limit = 100
 
@@ -49,7 +50,7 @@ export const retrieveAccounts = async (domain: string, page: number): Promise<Fe
         avatar: parseAvatarUrl(item.avatar, domain),
         locked: false,
         fields: [],
-        description: item.description ?? '',
+        description: parseDescription(item.description),
         displayName: item.displayName,
         followersCount: item.followersCount,
         followingCount: item.followingCount,

application/src/Fediverse/Providers/Peertube/retrieveVideoChannels.ts

@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@ import { FieldData } from '../FieldData'
 import { avatarSchema } from './Avatar'
 import { parseAvatarUrl } from './parseAvatarUrl'
 import { getDefaultTimeoutMilliseconds } from '../../getDefaultTimeoutMilliseconds'
+import { parseDescription } from './parseDescription'
 
 const limit = 100
 
@@ -59,7 +60,7 @@ export const retrieveVideoChannels = async (domain: string, page: number): Promi
         avatar: parseAvatarUrl(item.avatar, domain),
         locked: false,
         fields: fields,
-        description: item.description ?? '',
+        description: parseDescription(item.description),
         displayName: item.displayName,
         followersCount: item.followersCount,
         followingCount: item.followingCount,