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Not many posts on this account. Let's fix that! SourceBot has been trundling along for a while now with nothing new added. That's cool, I don't charge for it anymore. But with Derpibooru being a little wobbly of late, I wanted another good reverse searching service to take up the slack.

Enter @fluffle.xyz (oooh, they have a Bluesky!). Great little reverse searching service, and they have an API. Very nice. A small downside is that SourceBot only works with URLs, not blobs of image data. Now, I could do some really horrible bodge-coded solution to do it in SourceBot, but...

1 is easy. Cloudflare has a nice little js.fetch() function that can easily gobble a URL and spit out image blob. 2 was actually integrated into 1. Cloudflare allows you to resize images as you ingest them. Very nice! 3 ...

3 is where the rub lies. Fluffle wants a specific user agent layout, Cloudflare doesn't want to allow me to use such a user agent via any of the usual Python utils (httpx, aiohttp, etc), and the requirement for uploading a blob of data means js.fetch() (in Python) doesn't work. What do?

Using a chunk of JS as its own worker, making an RPC call to it and getting the info back! This includes a lot of head-smacking-against-brick-wall in the early attempts to make this work, but ultimately I tossed all the ideas out and implemented the final. github.com/SomewhatDama...