Audit of one sample sidecar per platform on the operator's
/mnt/Data/Patreon/ archive surfaced three parser bugs that have been
silently corrupting non-Patreon Posts since FC-3 shipped:
1. SubscribeStar `id` vs `post_id` confusion. gallery-dl puts the
per-attachment id in `id` (e.g. 711509) and the actual post id in
`post_id` (e.g. 360360). FC's external_post_id chain had `id`
winning, so every multi-image SubscribeStar post was fragmented into
N Post rows in the database. Reorder the chain to
`("post_id", "id", "index", "message_id")` — Patreon/Pixiv (no
`post_id`), HF (uses `index`), Discord (uses `message_id`) all
unaffected.
2. Discord `message` field not captured. Discord posts put the body in
`message`, not `content`. Append it to the description fallback chain
`("content", "description", "caption", "message")`.
3. post_url is the file URL on SubscribeStar/Pixiv/HF/Discord. New
`_derive_post_url(platform, data)` helper synthesizes proper
permalinks from per-platform fields:
subscribestar → https://www.subscribestar.com/posts/<post_id>
pixiv → https://www.pixiv.net/artworks/<id>
hentaifoundry → https://www.hentai-foundry.com/pictures/user/<user>/<index>
discord → https://discord.com/channels/<server>/<channel>/<message>
Patreon's bare `url` IS a real permalink and is used as-is. For the
four file-URL platforms, the bare `url` is NEVER trusted: derive or
return None rather than persist a CDN URL.
Tests:
- `test_parse_core_fields_and_id_priority` flipped to assert post_id
wins over id.
- New `test_parse_id_used_when_no_post_id` covers the Patreon real
shape.
- New `test_parse_message_used_as_description_fallback` covers Discord
bodies.
- Five new tests cover per-platform post_url derivation
(SubscribeStar/Pixiv/HF/Discord/Patreon-untouched + missing-fields →
None).
Cleanup migration alembic 0025_fix_subscribestar_post_ids:
- For each SubscribeStar Post: find a related ImageRecord.path, walk to
its sidecar JSON, read `post_id`, overwrite Post.external_post_id +
post_url with the corrected values.
- After all updates, every group of Posts under one source sharing the
same NEW external_post_id is a fragment-set — merge to a canonical
row using the same ImageProvenance pre-delete + repoint dance as
alembic 0022 (banked pattern).
- Pure-SQL backfill of Pixiv post_url: replace any `i.pximg.net`-shape
url with the derived `/artworks/<id>` permalink.
- HF and Discord post_url backfills skipped — HF would need the `user`
field (not stored on Post), Discord needs server/channel triple.
Both will be corrected by a deep-scan re-applying sidecars through
the new parser.
Idempotent: re-running on already-corrected data is a no-op.
SubscribeStar gallery-dl always writes `title: ""` and embeds the leading
sentence inside `content` HTML. Confirmed against the operator's
/mnt/Data/Patreon/Cheunart/subscribestar/ dump 2026-05-27: every
post's JSON has `title: ""` and a content like
`<div>Lets say hello to you guys with my Belle <br><br><br></div>`.
FC's sidecar parser, treating empty strings as missing, had been leaving
post_title NULL on every subscribestar post since FC-3 shipped.
Fix at two layers:
1. `backend/app/utils/sidecar.py` — new `_first_line_text(body, limit)`
helper strips HTML tags, collapses whitespace, returns the first
non-empty line truncated to 120 chars with ellipsis. `parse_sidecar`
now falls back to this when `title` resolves to None and a
`content`/`description`/`caption` value is present. Patreon's
non-empty titles short-circuit the fallback so existing behavior is
unchanged. Four new tests in test_sidecar_util.py pin: derivation
from content, truncation at 120 chars, explicit-title precedence,
no-content no-fallback.
2. `alembic 0024_backfill_post_title_from_description` — backfills the
same logic across existing Post rows where `post_title IS NULL OR
post_title = ''` AND description is present. Idempotent (re-running
is a no-op once titles are populated). Downgrade is a no-op since
there's no safe way to tell derived rows from genuine ones.
After deploy + migration: subscribestar posts will surface a meaningful
title in PostCard, post feed search, etc.
The two prefix-parsing tests were pinned to `artist:Eric`, but `artist`
was removed from KNOWN_KINDS in commit 4cad07a (provenance is a separate
axis from tags). The parser now keeps `artist:` literal, so the assertion
`body["name"] == "Eric"` failed.
Repointed to `character:Saber` (still in KNOWN_KINDS). Also updated the
stale `artist:` docstring example in parse_kind_prefix to `fandom:`.
Caught by [[reference-grep-pinned-tests-in-plans]] — should have grep'd
tests/ for `artist:` when shrinking KNOWN_KINDS. Banking the miss.
slugify() produces ASCII-only lowercase slugs from arbitrary text (used for
artist slugs and tag slugs). paths.derive_subdir/derive_top_level_artist
extract the destination layout and folder→artist convention from an import
source path. hash_suffixed_name builds IR-style 'stem__hash10.ext' filenames.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.7 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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