Danbooru

Batch uploader suggests wrong artist

Posted under General

I made post #2998899, and with it a new artist #162504. And now whenever I try to upload something using the batch uploader, only that artist will be suggested, even when the real artist is known to danbooru. This means I can't tell whether an artist doesn't exist on danbooru, or if I just can't find them when I upload. There are some works that I coudn't upload today because of this issue (I can't properly tag the artist).

I tried logging out, and restarting my browser.

The way the artist finder works is that it compares the source URL against the artist entries. It searches the following URLs until it finds an artist:

So if you put http://pbs.twimg.com/media/duuz5tfvoaaqq5z.jpg:orig in an artist entry then try to upload https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DUUUdD5VMAEuURz.jpg:orig, it will search for http://pbs.twimg.com/media/* and find the wrong artist.

This is why artist entries should generally only contain profile URLs, not direct image URLs. Certain sites are exceptions to this rule, but for Twitter/Pixiv only the profile URLs should be listed.

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