The find-or-create dance — SELECT, then a SAVEPOINT INSERT that recovers (not a full rollback) on IntegrityError when a concurrent worker inserted first — was hand-rolled identically in 4 async sites: ArtistService.find_or_create, TagService.find_or_create, ExtensionService._find_or_create_artist and ._find_or_create_source. Divergent copies of exactly this pattern are how the duplicate-row/race bugs in reference_scalar_one_or_none_duplicates crept in, so it now lives once in services/db_helpers.get_or_create (returns (row, created); factory adds+flushes+returns the row; caller owns the outer commit). Over-DRY guard: SourceService's IntegrityError sites RAISE DuplicateSourceError (reject-on-conflict, a different concept) — left alone. Importer._get_or_create is the lone SYNC consumer (already shared by 2 callers) — stays separate, can't cross the sync/async boundary. §8b: no hand-rolled async find-or-create remains. Test: get_or_create creates then returns existing without re-invoking the factory. 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.