A single 429 mid-walk used to fail the run → RATE_LIMITED → platform-wide
cooldown → every Patreon source dark ("testing dead"). The native path also
ignored the operator's existing politeness setting. Fixed both:
- Pacing (avoid 429s): honor download_rate_limit_seconds (gallery-dl's
`rate_limit`, read off self.gdl) as a pre-download sleep on real media
downloads only (skips don't pace); pace /api/posts page fetches with the
per-source sleep_request override, defaulting to max(0.5, rate_limit/4) —
the same API-pacing default gallery-dl used for `sleep-request`.
- 429 backoff (ride out transient limits): PatreonClient._fetch retries a
429 with backoff (honor Retry-After, else exponential 2·2^(n-1), capped
30s, ≤3 tries); only a PERSISTENT 429 propagates as terminal
RATE_LIMITED. Light 2-retry on a media-GET 429 too.
Threaded via PatreonIngester(rate_limit=, request_sleep=) →
PatreonClient/PatreonDownloader; download_service sources them. Injected
test client/downloader are unaffected (carry their own pacing).
Tests mock time.sleep (no real sleeping): retry-then-success, persistent
429 raises after N, Retry-After honored, request_sleep paces, media pacing
per real download, skips don't pace, media 429 retried.
Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.8 (1M context) <noreply@anthropic.com>
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.