The image library is on a CIFS/SMB share (mounted rsize=4 MiB, actimeo=1), and Quart's FileBody streams in 8 KiB chunks — so serving one large original was ~19k network round-trips to the storage server, i.e. 30–58s per download (operator-flagged). That's what starved the GPU agent (constant "curator unreachable" backoff) AND slowed the browser: every byte is read off CIFS and streamed through the Python app (no reverse-proxy sendfile), and only 2 hypercorn workers meant the agent + the browser's thumbnail grid queued behind each other. In-container fix, no new service: - Raise FileBody.buffer_size 8 KiB → 4 MiB in create_app, matching the mount's read size: one round-trip per read, ~500× fewer. buffer_size is the MAX read so small thumbnails still read in one gulp, and Range/mime/ETag/conditional handling lives on Response — all preserved. Guarded so a Quart-internal change can't break boot. - HYPERCORN_WORKERS default 2 → 4 so concurrent /images requests stop queuing. Expected: large-file transfers drop from ~40s toward link speed (a few seconds) for the agent and the browser. See issue #1223. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 <noreply@anthropic.com> Claude-Session: https://claude.ai/code/session_01Ttrj5P7upUTueSfoJcxEqa
FabledCurator
Self-hosted media curation — gallery, ML tagging, and subscription-driven downloading in one app. Part of the FabledSword family.
Combines what was ImageRepo (gallery, ML, importer) and GallerySubscriber (gallery-dl wrapper, subscriptions, credential capture) into a single product.
Status
Pre-v1. Not yet functional.
Quick start
For local development and testing, just:
docker compose up -d
# UI: http://localhost:8080
That uses sane dev defaults baked into docker-compose.yml and the dev
override (docker-compose.override.yml, auto-merged) — local builds, DEBUG
logging, exposed Postgres + Redis ports on the host. No .env required.
For a production-like deployment, override the dev defaults via shell env
or a .env file (see .env.example for the variable names) and use:
docker compose -f docker-compose.yml up -d
# (skips the override so containers pull registry images)
Deployment posture
FabledCurator is designed to run inside a self-hosted homelab environment over plain HTTP. If you want TLS, terminate it at your reverse proxy. The app does not generate certificates, redirect to HTTPS, or set HSTS.
CI / Forgejo setup
The repo's workflows expect:
-
Runner label
python-ci— a Forgejo runner with Python 3.14, ruff, and Node 22 pre-installed. Bothci.ymlandbuild.ymluse this label. The runner image (runner-base:python-ci) is built fromCI-Runner/CI-python/in the operator's workspace;make pushfrom that directory builds and pushes a new image when toolchain pins change. -
Repo secret
RELEASE_TOKEN— a Forgejo PAT with the following scopes:write:package+read:package— fordocker pushtogit.fabledsword.comwrite:release— for future release-cutting workflowswrite:issue— for future issue-management automation
Generate at https://git.fabledsword.com/user/settings/applications. The injected
GITHUB_TOKENcannot be used because it lackswrite:package.
License
Personal project; use at your own discretion.