Backfill downloads stranded with empty logs + a generic "stranded by recovery sweep" error. Root cause: the backfill gallery-dl subprocess timeout (1170s) exceeded download_source's Celery soft_time_limit (900s), so SoftTimeLimitExceeded preempted subprocess.TimeoutExpired. The TimeoutExpired path (which captures partial stdout/stderr and finalizes the event) never ran, the event was left 'running', and phase 3 never decremented backfill_runs_remaining — so the source re-ran and re-stranded every tick (Anduo #39912). Two layers: 1. Raise download_source limits (soft 900→1350, hard 1200→1500) so both subprocess budgets (870 tick / 1170 backfill) sit below the soft limit with phase-3 persist headroom. Promote to module constants and guard the invariant with a test. 2. Catch SoftTimeLimitExceeded in download_source and finalize the in-flight event with a real reason, mirror phase-3 source-health, and decrement backfill so a chronically-slow source self-heals to tick mode. The existing celery_signals handler only covered TaskRun, not DownloadEvent — that was the gap. Updates stale 900/1200 references in gallery_dl.py + maintenance.py. 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.