feat: seed gallery-dl's skip-archive so the fetcher needs no archive copy

gallery-dl skips already-held media either by file existence -- which
requires the archive mounted where it writes -- or by a sqlite
skip-archive, which requires nothing on disk. Using the latter lets the
fetch host write to local disk and rsync afterwards, avoiding tens of
thousands of small writes over CIFS and keeping a mid-sync failure from
leaving partial files on the live Resilio share.

The key is archive_prefix + archive_fmt: the literal "instagram" plus the
per-media numeric pk. Verified against a real run -- a 3-image carousel
produced 3 rows and a re-run skipped every media file.

media_id is absent from our filenames, so the DB cannot be built from
names alone, but the listing pass we already make maps every live item to
its media_id, and a file listing says which we hold. Seeding therefore
costs no extra Instagram requests and no archive content -- the listing
GET /api/archives/:name/files already serves is enough.

Measured on 0ct0ber19: 2275 live items, 2248 seeded, 27 left to fetch --
exactly the media of the two posts added since the last crawl.

The trap worth the comment it carries: posts and reels are filed under
post_shortcode, while stories and highlights use the per-item shortcode
(post_shortcode there is the containing reel's id, shared by every item).
Matching on the wrong field seeded 5 of 2275 rather than failing loudly.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5 <noreply@anthropic.com>
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@@ -226,19 +226,107 @@ def gdl_command(src: Source, root: Path, config: Path, cookies: str,
return cmd
def seed_archive_db(root: Path, profiles: dict[str, Profile],
db: Path) -> int:
"""
TODO: populate the skip-archive from filenames already on disk.
# gallery-dl keys its skip-archive on `archive_prefix + archive_fmt`, which for
# this extractor is the literal "instagram" followed by the per-media numeric
# pk (`instagram.py:25`, `job.py:713-719`). Verified against a real run: a
# 3-image carousel produced 3 rows, one per item.
ARCHIVE_KEY = "instagram{}".format
ARCHIVE_SCHEMA = "CREATE TABLE IF NOT EXISTS archive (entry TEXT PRIMARY KEY)"
gallery-dl keys its archive on an extractor-specific id string, so this
needs the exact format `InstagramExtractor.archive_fmt` produces. Until
it is implemented, the first run of any profile re-downloads everything —
bandwidth on the CDN (the tolerant surface), but hours of it.
RE_ARCHIVED = re.compile(
r"^(\d{4}-\d{2}-\d{2})_(.+?) - ([A-Za-z0-9_-]+?)(?: - (\d+))?\.(\w+)$")
NON_MEDIA = {"txt", "json"}
def index_existing(listing: list[str]) -> set[tuple[str, int]]:
"""
raise NotImplementedError(
"seed_archive_db is unimplemented; run without --archive-db and accept "
"a full re-download, or implement this first")
Reduce a flat list of filenames to the (shortcode, index) pairs already
held. Only names matter — never the bytes — which is what lets the sync run
on a host that has no copy of the archive.
"""
have: set[tuple[str, int]] = set()
for name in listing:
m = RE_ARCHIVED.match(name.rsplit("/", 1)[-1])
if not m or m.group(5).lower() in NON_MEDIA:
continue
# An absent index means a single-media post, which is index 1 — the
# same normalisation the viewer's EXPORT_RE applies.
have.add((m.group(3), int(m.group(4) or 1)))
return have
def live_key(item: dict, kind: str) -> tuple[str, int]:
"""
The (shortcode, index) a live item *would* be filed under, mirroring the
filename template exactly.
The two surfaces disagree about which shortcode identifies a file, and
getting this wrong silently seeds almost nothing:
posts/reels filed under {post_shortcode} — for a carousel, each
child item ALSO has its own `shortcode`, which is not
what appears in the filename.
stories/highlights filed under the per-item {shortcode}, because
`post_shortcode` there is the containing reel's id and
is shared by every item in it.
"""
if kind in ("stories", "highlights"):
return (item.get("shortcode"), 1)
return (item.get("post_shortcode"), item.get("num"))
def seed_archive_db(db: Path, existing: set[tuple[str, int]],
live: list[dict], kind: str) -> int:
"""
Mark everything already held as downloaded, so a fetch into an empty
directory pulls only what is missing.
`live` is the metadata of one listing pass — the pass we have to make
anyway — each entry carrying at least `media_id` plus the shortcode fields
`live_key` needs. Seeding costs no additional Instagram requests, and needs
only a *listing* of the archive, never its contents.
"""
import sqlite3
db.parent.mkdir(parents=True, exist_ok=True)
con = sqlite3.connect(db)
con.execute(ARCHIVE_SCHEMA)
rows = [
(ARCHIVE_KEY(item["media_id"]),)
for item in live
if live_key(item, kind) in existing
]
con.executemany("INSERT OR IGNORE INTO archive (entry) VALUES (?)", rows)
con.commit()
con.close()
return len(rows)
def probe_live(src: Source, config: Path, cookies: str) -> list[dict]:
"""
One metadata-only listing pass. `sleep` is forced to 0 because it otherwise
applies per *file* even with no download — 2275 files at 1-3s each is over
an hour for a single profile.
"""
out = subprocess.run(
["gallery-dl", "-j", "--config", str(config),
"--cookies-from-browser", cookies, "-o", "sleep=0", src.url],
capture_output=True, text=True, check=True,
)
items: list[dict] = []
def walk(node):
if isinstance(node, dict):
if "media_id" in node and "shortcode" in node:
items.append(node)
for value in node.values():
walk(value)
elif isinstance(node, list):
for value in node:
walk(value)
walk(json.loads(out.stdout))
return items
def main() -> int: