Covers?

[Matthew Cox]

If you're running a local installation, or if you're (Like me) trying to run a homemade django app using the GCD SQL dump as the cononical data, how do you handle covers? Hotlinking isn't a good idea, especially given the severity of how Cloudflare treats outside links to the cover file server.

Thanks,

Matt

[Kyle Jerviss]

There currently isn't a solution for this, other than scanning all of
your books.

Before Cloudflare, it was somewhat easy to download covers, and it
seemed like a good trade to scan and upload any covers that GCD was
missing in exchange for being able to download GCD covers for use in a
private database. Now, not so much.

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[Matthew Cox]

Yes- agreed. Cloudflare settings have made hotlinking or downloading impossible. I don't know if there's a middle ground to protect versus bots or not, but it would be, as you say, a nice tradeoff.

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[Jochen G.]

If anyone has a way to keep the site alive in the current bot-age while
allowing cover access we can investigate that.

It is not Cloudflare that is the problem, the bots are.

We cannot pass logged-in users through Cloudflare, which would be the
most obvious option.

Am 15.07.26 um 12:41 schrieb Kyle Jerviss:

[Kyle Jerviss]

The API service isn't behind Cloudflare, is it?

Or, I'd be willing to host a private, members-only, cover archive/backup
for free. There would be some technical issues to solve, but probably
not serious ones.

[Adam Hernandez]

All,

Can someone explain what the problem is like I'm 5 please. I'm currently running a web service api for my pullbox application that serves up the weekly releases and their metadata which includes cover links. I'm wondering if we can use that? 

Thanks, 

Adam