From 025bf4a5e77f78928b21e77ceb33bc05a8ce642e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Johann150 <johann.galle@protonmail.com>
Date: Tue, 31 May 2022 11:57:55 +0200
Subject: [PATCH] fix(mfm): remove duplicate br tag/newline (#8616)

---
 packages/backend/src/mfm/from-html.ts | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/packages/backend/src/mfm/from-html.ts b/packages/backend/src/mfm/from-html.ts
index 623cb0e71..15110b6b7 100644
--- a/packages/backend/src/mfm/from-html.ts
+++ b/packages/backend/src/mfm/from-html.ts
@@ -6,6 +6,9 @@ const urlRegex     = /^https?:\/\/[\w\/:%#@$&?!()\[\]~.,=+\-]+/;
 const urlRegexFull = /^https?:\/\/[\w\/:%#@$&?!()\[\]~.,=+\-]+$/;
 
 export function fromHtml(html: string, hashtagNames?: string[]): string {
+	// some AP servers like Pixelfed use br tags as well as newlines
+	html = html.replace(/<br\s?\/?>\r?\n/gi, '\n');
+
 	const dom = parse5.parseFragment(html);
 
 	let text = '';