diff --git a/app/Main.hs b/app/Main.hs
index ca1e7d3..f576ef1 100644
--- a/app/Main.hs
+++ b/app/Main.hs
@@ -49,6 +49,7 @@ import qualified Common.Component.CatalogGrid as Grid
 import qualified Common.Component.TimeControl as TC
 import Common.FrontEnd.Action (GetThreadArgs (..))
 import qualified Common.Component.Thread.Model as Thread
+import qualified Common.Component.ThreadView as Thread
 import Common.Network.SiteType (Site)
 
 data HtmlPage a = forall b. (ToJSON b) => HtmlPage (JSONSettings, b, a)
@@ -174,11 +175,14 @@ threadView settings website board_pathpart board_thread_id = do
 
     case thread_results of
         Left err -> throwError $ err500 { errBody = fromString $ show err }
-        Right site -> pure $ render now $ head site
+        Right site -> do
+            let s = head site
+            posts_and_bodies <- liftIO $ Thread.getPostWithBodies s
+            pure $ render posts_and_bodies now s
 
     where
-        render :: UTCTime -> Site -> HtmlPage (View FE.Action)
-        render t site =
+        render :: [ Thread.PostWithBody ] -> UTCTime -> Site -> HtmlPage (View FE.Action)
+        render posts_and_bodies t site =
             HtmlPage
                 ( settings
                 , site
@@ -200,7 +204,7 @@ threadView settings website board_pathpart board_thread_id = do
                 thread_model = Thread.Model
                     { Thread.site = site
                     , Thread.media_root = pack $ media_root settings
-                    , Thread.post_bodies = []
+                    , Thread.post_bodies = posts_and_bodies
                     , Thread.current_time = t
                     }
 
diff --git a/app/Parsing/BodyParser.hs b/app/Parsing/BodyParser.hs
index 0bd38d9..eb229f9 100644
--- a/app/Parsing/BodyParser.hs
+++ b/app/Parsing/BodyParser.hs
@@ -1,3 +1,5 @@
+{-# LANGUAGE OverloadedStrings #-}
+
 module Parsing.BodyParser
     ( PostPart (..)
     , parsePostBody
@@ -5,10 +7,34 @@ module Parsing.BodyParser
     , Backlinks
     ) where
 
-import Data.Text (Text)
+import Data.Text (Text, unpack)
 
 import Common.Parsing.PostPartType
 import Common.Parsing.PostBodyUtils
+import Common.Parsing.QuoteLinkParser
+
+tagsToPostParts :: [ Tag Text ] -> [ PostPart ]
+tagsToPostParts = concatMap tagToPostPart
+
+
+tagToPostPart :: Tag Text -> [ PostPart ]
+tagToPostPart (TagText t) = SimpleText t : []
+tagToPostPart (TagOpen "a" attrs) = parseAnchor attrs : []
+tagToPostPart (TagOpen "span" attrs) = parseSpan attrs : []
+
+
+parseAnchor :: [ Attribute Text ] -> PostPart
+parseAnchor attrs =
+    case lookup "href" attrs of
+        Nothing -> SimpleText "Anchor without href"
+        Just href ->
+            case lookup "target" attrs of
+                Just "_blank" -> PostedUrl href
+                _ -> Quote $ parseURL $ unpack href
+
+
+parseSpan :: [ Attribute Text ] -> PostPart
 
 parsePostBody :: Text -> IO [ PostPart ]
-parsePostBody = undefined
+parsePostBody html =
+    return $ tagsToPostParts $ parseTags html
diff --git a/chandlr-server.cabal b/chandlr-server.cabal
index 06588fd..5ded0dc 100644
--- a/chandlr-server.cabal
+++ b/chandlr-server.cabal
@@ -122,7 +122,8 @@ executable chandlr-server
                       http-types,
                       cmdargs,
                       mtl,
-                      utf8-string
+                      utf8-string,
+                      tagsoup
 
     -- Directories containing source files.
     hs-source-dirs:   app