Review of the #1–#9 ingester roadmap found two real-but-small gaps; this closes both. #5 (live posts progress) shipped at per-chunk granularity — _apply_backfill_ lifecycle accumulated DownloadResult.posts_processed AFTER each chunk, so the badge didn't move during a chunk (up to ~14.5 min) and over-counted the re-walked resume page. The plan called for within-chunk live updates. Move ownership of _backfill_posts into the ingester: ingest_core writes a monotonic absolute (posts_base + net-new) via _checkpoint_posts at each page boundary and once at the end, EXCLUDING the resumed page so it no longer inflates across chunks. download_service seeds posts_base from prior chunks and stops touching the key (the lifecycle now carries the ingester's committed value forward). #8 (per-media transient/permanent retry) covered only the plain-GET path (_fetch_to_file); the Mux/video path returned None on any yt-dlp failure with no retry. Give _run_ytdlp the same split: TimeoutExpired/OSError are transient (back off + retry up to _MAX_MEDIA_RETRIES), a non-zero exit (CalledProcessError) is permanent (yt-dlp already did its own network retries) → fail fast to the per-item/dead-letter path. Tests: live-posts absolute + resume-page exclusion + tick-doesn't-persist (test_patreon_ingester); lifecycle-leaves-posts-to-ingester rewrite (test_download_service); video transient-retry + permanent-fail-fast (test_patreon_downloader). 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:
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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.