diff --git a/scripts/imgproxy.js b/scripts/imgproxy.js
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..e4b763086b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/scripts/imgproxy.js
@@ -0,0 +1,87 @@
+const events = require('events')
+const path = require('path')
+const { PrismaClient } = require('@prisma/client')
+
+const prisma = new PrismaClient()
+
+const imgProxyEnabled = process.env.NODE_ENV === 'production' ||
+  (process.env.NEXT_PUBLIC_IMGPROXY_URL && process.env.IMGPROXY_SALT && process.env.IMGPROXY_KEY)
+
+if (!imgProxyEnabled) {
+  console.warn('IMGPROXY_* env vars must be set')
+  process.exit(1)
+}
+
+function usage () {
+  const scriptName = path.basename(process.argv[1])
+  console.log(`Usage: ${scriptName} <TABLE>`)
+  console.log('Parses links from "text" and "url" TEXT columns of table <TABLE> and populates the "imgproxyUrls" JSONB column.')
+}
+
+// queue size determines how many items can be processed at the same time.
+// this is roughly equivalent to how many requests should be in flight.
+// if queue is too large, we might run out of memory and too many requests fail due to timeouts.
+const MAX_QUEUE = 1000
+// interval in milliseconds to poll for queue status
+const QUEUE_POLL = 250
+let queued = 0
+const queue = new events.EventEmitter()
+
+const sleep = ms => new Promise(resolve => setTimeout(resolve, ms))
+
+async function main (tableName) {
+  const { createImgproxyUrls } = await import('../worker/imgproxy.js')
+  try {
+    // loads all items into memory - not efficient but this script only needs to be run once
+    const r = await prisma.$queryRawUnsafe(`SELECT * FROM "${tableName}" WHERE "imgproxyUrls" IS NULL`)
+
+    queue.on('job', async ({ id, ...item }) => {
+      // only process 100 items at once.
+      // if there are already 100 items in the queue, wait.
+      // eslint-disable-next-line no-unmodified-loop-condition
+      while (queued > MAX_QUEUE) {
+        await sleep(QUEUE_POLL)
+      }
+
+      queued++
+
+      // copied from worker/imgproxy.js
+
+      const isJob = typeof item.maxBid !== 'undefined'
+
+      let imgproxyUrls = {}
+      try {
+        if (item.text) {
+          imgproxyUrls = await createImgproxyUrls(item.text)
+        }
+        if (item.url && !isJob) {
+          imgproxyUrls = { ...imgproxyUrls, ...(await createImgproxyUrls(item.url)) }
+        }
+      } catch (err) {
+        console.log('[imgproxy] error:', err)
+        // rethrow for retry
+        throw err
+      }
+
+      console.log('[imgproxy] updating item', id, 'with urls', imgproxyUrls)
+
+      await prisma.$queryRawUnsafe(`UPDATE "${tableName}" SET "imgproxyUrls" = '${JSON.stringify(imgproxyUrls, null, 0)}'::JSONB WHERE id = ${id}`)
+
+      queued--
+    })
+
+    for (const item of r) {
+      queue.emit('job', item)
+    }
+  } catch (err) {
+    console.error(err)
+  }
+}
+
+const tableName = process.argv[2]
+if (!tableName) {
+  usage()
+  process.exit(1)
+}
+
+main(tableName)
diff --git a/worker/imgproxy.js b/worker/imgproxy.js
index f2974418a6..501b762131 100644
--- a/worker/imgproxy.js
+++ b/worker/imgproxy.js
@@ -51,7 +51,7 @@ export function imgproxy ({ models }) {
   }
 }
 
-const createImgproxyUrls = async (text) => {
+export const createImgproxyUrls = async (text) => {
   const urls = extractUrls(text)
   console.log("[imgproxy] extracted urls:", urls)
   // resolutions that we target: