Refactor oEmbed previews (#10814)

The major change is moving the decision of whether to use oEmbed
further up the call-stack. This reverts the _download_url method to
being a "dumb" functionwhich takes a single URL and downloads it
(as it was before #7920).

This also makes more minor refactorings:

* Renames internal variables for clarity.
* Factors out shared code between the HTML and rich oEmbed
  previews.
* Fixes tests to preview an oEmbed image.

1 files changed, 13 insertions, 8 deletions

diff --git a/docs/development/url_previews.md b/docs/development/url_previews.md

index bbe05e281c..aff3813609 100644
--- a/docs/development/url_previews.md
+++ b/docs/development/url_previews.md
@@ -25,16 +25,14 @@ When Synapse is asked to preview a URL it does the following:
 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 pattern. If it does, fetch the oEmbed
-      response. If this is an image, replace the URL to fetch and continue. If
-      if it is HTML content, use the HTML as the document and continue.
-   3. If it doesn't match an oEmbed pattern, downloads the URL and stores it
-      into a file via the media storage provider and saves the local media
-      metadata.
-   5. If the media is an image:
+   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.
-   6. If the media is HTML:
+   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 an image exists in the Open Graph response:
@@ -42,6 +40,13 @@ When Synapse is asked to preview a URL it does the following:
             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.