image-gin 0.3.1 Published

Image Gin 0.3.1 — Magnific search that's fast again

Magnific searches return the number of results you set instead of 50, so they're quicker, and every image link is https.

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Why Care?

Searching Magnific's stock images from Image Gin had become slow enough to look broken. You'd search, and the results took long enough that it seemed nothing was happening.

It was doing far more than you asked. 0.3.1 makes it do only that.

What's New?

  • Faster searches. You get the number of results set in Image Gin's settings, 10 by default, instead of 50.

  • Less clutter in the plugin folder. Image Gin caches a thumbnail for every result, so it now caches 10 instead of 50 per search.

  • Secure image links. Magnific returns image addresses as http://. Image Gin now inserts them as https://, which serves the same files.

What Went Wrong

Image Gin asked Magnific for results with per_page. Magnific's API takes limit, ignores per_page, and returns its default of 50. The search modal then downloaded a thumbnail for each of them before showing anything.

Good to Know

  • Clear old thumbnails with Clear Cache in Image Gin's settings, if earlier searches left a lot behind.

  • Requires Obsidian 1.13, as 0.3.0 did.

  • Under the hood: src/services/magnificService.ts sends limit and upgrades image.source.url to https. The thumbnail cache folder is now gitignored.