Option to caching images so we aren't accidentally DDOSing the media source APIs

[ravi-donepudi]

Hi, firstly great plugin, thank you for making this.

Whenever I am in card mode (for a base of media db entries) and navigate away and come back the images are reloaded, and looks like the APIs are being queried again. I feel a bit bad especially when the image source is, say, openlibrary. Is there a way to specify to cache the image files locally (say at lower resolution) so we fetch them only once and cache them and it only changes if the image source is actively changed or a "force-refresh" button is clicked? This could be an optional feature or the default.

Corrections to any of the above points are most welcome as I might be completely off here. Thank you.

[ravi-donepudi]

The readme implies (excerpt below) that the feature to download the image files is already present but wasn't able to figure out what option this was in the settings. It would be useful to the users if it could be clarified.

The plugin offers a setting to automatically download the poster images for a new media, ensuring offline access. The images are saved as type_title (year) e.g. movie_The Perfect Storm (2000), in a user-chosen folder.

[ltctceplrm]

The readme reflects the latest beta/canary release that you can manually download or use the BRAT plugin to automatically download.

In the canary version there's an option called download images which is a simple checkbox.

Please note that this only downloads the images forfuture notes, not existing ones so you'd need to either refresh the metadata of the notes one by one or just use another plugin to bulk download the images for your existing notes.