Preserve links or HTML in Furaffinity descriptions?

[cinnamon-bun]

The description sometimes contains important links like:

• links to other accounts who might be the actual author of the content, if it was a commission
• Next | First | Prev links for comics and image sequences

The description's HTML is removed and that info is lost:

https://github.com/mikf/gallery-dl/blob/master/gallery_dl/extractor/furaffinity.py#L83-L113

            # new site layout
            data["description"] = text.unescape(rh(extr(
                'class="section-body">', '</div>'), "", ""))

            # new site layout
            data["description"] = text.unescape(text.remove_html(extr(
                "</table>", "</table>"), "", ""))

Would it be possible to keep the HTML, or at least <a> tags? (What's the general policy of gallery-dl about HTML?)

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Example pages to test on (NSFW)

• link to another account: https://www.furaffinity.net/view/39828507 -- in this case the other account is linked only with a user icon that has no text, so gallery-dl captures it as "Ipad Commission for with adorable spooky puppy!" without the account name
• Next and Prev links: https://www.furaffinity.net/view/35225276

[cinnamon-bun]

(For context: I'm making an indexer and gallery viewer for gallery-dl archives, so I want to preserve as much info as possible about authorship, comics sequences, etc.)

[mikf]

Commit 89a2bcb adds a descriptions option for furaffinity, which allows you to disable any description text processing like remove_html, although there might be differences between the old and new fa layout:

$ gallery-dl -j -o descriptions=text https://www.furaffinity.net/view/35225276
...
      "description": "Ipad Commission for  with adorable spooky puppy!  ywy \r\n\r\n✨ My twitter ✨",

$ gallery-dl -j -o descriptions=html https://www.furaffinity.net/view/35225276
...
      "description": "</td>\n                </tr>\n                <tr>\n                    <td valign=\"top\" align=\"left\" width=\"70%\" class=\"alt1\" style=\"padding:8px\">\n                        Ipad Commission for <a href=\"/user/spookielee\" class=\"iconusername\"><img src=\"//a.facdn.net/20210120/spookielee.gif\" align=\"middle\" title=\"SpookieLee\" alt=\"SpookieLee\" /></a> with adorable spooky puppy! <i class=\"smilie love\"></i> ywy <i class=\"smilie love\"></i><br />\r\n<br />\r\n✨ <a class=\"auto_link named_url\" href=\"https://twitter.com/UlitochkaArt\">My twitter</a> ✨\n                                            </td>\n                </tr>",

[cinnamon-bun]

Thank you!