umputun/remark42

Add avatar's import from disqus

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#990 opened on May 7, 2021

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Description

As mentioned in https://github.com/umputun/remark42/issues/958#issuecomment-828707386 Disqus has the API to retrieve avatars. Adding this to the import process will be very nice.

A few challenges:

  • probably the API calls should be rate-limited and may need retries
  • imported avatars should be proxied, i.e. stored and served locally

We already support avatar proxy as a part of auth, but this is an external library. Not sure if we can make the avatar proxy part available in go-pkgz/auth or just copy the relevant part into remark42

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Add avatar import from Disqus API with rate limiting and retries, and proxy the imported avatars locally. Use existing avatar proxy from go pkgz/auth or copy relevant parts into Remark42.
Tech stack
go
Domain
backendapi
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Feature
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3
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1-2 days
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Clear
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Go
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60