Folks, I have been busy working on the Thingiverse add-on/alternative. I decided I needed to complete the workaround for the Thingiverse incomplete CORS implementation. CORS is a protocol that ensures your browser will only download code from trusted sites. The Thingiverse API does not consistently implement the CORS protocol so some models are accessible and some are not. The workaround is to build a component called a “reverse proxy”. This is a program running on a server, in my case Amazon AWS, that sits between the code running in your browser and the destination API. I now have this completed and 50% tested. So far it solves all of the problems with retrieving models.
I hired a guy on Fiverr to do additional extensive testing since it gets tedious after a while. Based on his input and all of yours I have done some more work on the user interface.
Understandable, what your doing takes a lot of time to get it right. Sometimes more time than was anticipated. Thanks for spending the time to try and fix Thingeverse.
My experience today was it did not want to display my collections,very, very slow so I could download. Did get single stl’s but I did not try multiples.
I noticed that too, the last couple of times I was on Thingeverse that you have to download the files one by one and you don’t get the images or the directions. I have a few files there but deleted my account when they had the data breach awhile back and didn’t bother to tell any one. It’s a shame as it has gone to pot it was a great resource for stl files.
j/k