Inline URL preview documentation. (#13261)

Inline URL preview documentation near the implementation.

4 files changed, 2 insertions, 68 deletions

diff --git a/docs/SUMMARY.md b/docs/SUMMARY.md
index 8d6030e34a..f54b571d38 100644
--- a/docs/SUMMARY.md
+++ b/docs/SUMMARY.md
@@ -35,7 +35,6 @@
     - [Application Services](application_services.md)
     - [Server Notices](server_notices.md)
     - [Consent Tracking](consent_tracking.md)
-    - [URL Previews](development/url_previews.md)
     - [User Directory](user_directory.md)
     - [Message Retention Policies](message_retention_policies.md)
     - [Pluggable Modules](modules/index.md)
diff --git a/docs/admin_api/user_admin_api.md b/docs/admin_api/user_admin_api.md
index 1235f1cb95..0871cfebf5 100644
--- a/docs/admin_api/user_admin_api.md
+++ b/docs/admin_api/user_admin_api.md
@@ -544,7 +544,7 @@ Gets a list of all local media that a specific `user_id` has created.
 These are media that the user has uploaded themselves
 ([local media](../media_repository.md#local-media)), as well as
 [URL preview images](../media_repository.md#url-previews) requested by the user if the
-[feature is enabled](../development/url_previews.md).
+[feature is enabled](../usage/configuration/config_documentation.md#url_preview_enabled).
 
 By default, the response is ordered by descending creation date and ascending media ID.
 The newest media is on top. You can change the order with parameters
diff --git a/docs/development/url_previews.md b/docs/development/url_previews.md
deleted file mode 100644
index 25f189683d..0000000000
--- a/docs/development/url_previews.md
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,62 +0,0 @@
-URL Previews
-============
-For information on how to enable URL previews in synapse, please see the [config manual](../usage/configuration/config_documentation.md#url_preview_enabled).
-
-The `GET /_matrix/media/r0/preview_url` endpoint provides a generic preview API
-for URLs which outputs [Open Graph](https://ogp.me/) responses (with some Matrix
-specific additions).
-
-This does have trade-offs compared to other designs:
-
-* Pros:
-  * Simple and flexible; can be used by any clients at any point
-* Cons:
-  * If each homeserver provides one of these independently, all the HSes in a
-    room may needlessly DoS the target URI
-  * The URL metadata must be stored somewhere, rather than just using Matrix
-    itself to store the media.
-  * Matrix cannot be used to distribute the metadata between homeservers.
-
-When Synapse is asked to preview a URL it does the following:
-
-1. Checks against a URL blacklist (defined as `url_preview_url_blacklist` in the
-   config).
-2. Checks the in-memory cache by URLs and returns the result if it exists. (This
-   is also used to de-duplicate processing of multiple in-flight requests at once.)
-3. Kicks off a background process to generate a preview:
-   1. Checks the database cache by URL and timestamp and returns the result if it
-      has not expired and was successful (a 2xx return code).
-   2. Checks if the URL matches an [oEmbed](https://oembed.com/) pattern. If it
-      does, update the URL to download.
-   3. Downloads the URL and stores it into a file via the media storage provider
-      and saves the local media metadata.
-   4. If the media is an image:
-      1. Generates thumbnails.
-      2. Generates an Open Graph response based on image properties.
-   5. If the media is HTML:
-      1. Decodes the HTML via the stored file.
-      2. Generates an Open Graph response from the HTML.
-      3. If a JSON oEmbed URL was found in the HTML via autodiscovery:
-         1. Downloads the URL and stores it into a file via the media storage provider
-            and saves the local media metadata.
-         2. Convert the oEmbed response to an Open Graph response.
-         3. Override any Open Graph data from the HTML with data from oEmbed.
-      4. If an image exists in the Open Graph response:
-         1. Downloads the URL and stores it into a file via the media storage
-            provider and saves the local media metadata.
-         2. Generates thumbnails.
-         3. Updates the Open Graph response based on image properties.
-   6. If the media is JSON and an oEmbed URL was found:
-      1. Convert the oEmbed response to an Open Graph response.
-      2. If a thumbnail or image is in the oEmbed response:
-         1. Downloads the URL and stores it into a file via the media storage
-            provider and saves the local media metadata.
-         2. Generates thumbnails.
-         3. Updates the Open Graph response based on image properties.
-   7. Stores the result in the database cache.
-4. Returns the result.
-
-The in-memory cache expires after 1 hour.
-
-Expired entries in the database cache (and their associated media files) are
-deleted every 10 seconds. The default expiration time is 1 hour from download.
diff --git a/docs/media_repository.md b/docs/media_repository.md
index ba17f8a856..23e6da7f31 100644
--- a/docs/media_repository.md
+++ b/docs/media_repository.md
@@ -7,8 +7,7 @@ The media repository
    users.
  * caches avatars, attachments and their thumbnails for media uploaded by remote
    users.
- * caches resources and thumbnails used for
-   [URL previews](development/url_previews.md).
+ * caches resources and thumbnails used for URL previews.
 
 All media in Matrix can be identified by a unique
 [MXC URI](https://spec.matrix.org/latest/client-server-api/#matrix-content-mxc-uris),
@@ -59,8 +58,6 @@ remote_thumbnail/matrix.org/aa/bb/cccccccccccccccccccc/128-96-image-jpeg
 Note that `remote_thumbnail/` does not have an `s`.
 
 ## URL Previews
-See [URL Previews](development/url_previews.md) for documentation on the URL preview
-process.
 
 When generating previews for URLs, Synapse may download and cache various
 resources, including images. These resources are assigned temporary media IDs